school to prison pipeline

Welcome back to 3tingz Podcast, where your favorite co-hosts & creators Aliya Cheyanne, Tasia Marie & Mikhaila Rae discuss ‘3tingz’ shaping the culture!

This week the hosts discuss the:

• Question of the week: What are some memories you have from school?
• Back to school roundup: Getting back into the routine, student loans, the nationwide teacher shortage, student struggles, the school-to-prison pipeline, Affirmative Action & CRT.
• Mental Health Tip of the Week: Black students find allies in quest for better mental health: each other

Chapter Markers:
0:48 Intro & Memories From School
15:05 Challenges and Solutions in Education Today
30:11 Disparities in Education and Student Struggles
48:41 Affirmative Action, DEI, CRT
55:39 Mental Health Tip of the Week

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Colorado's state prison budget has grown by almost 1300% in the last 35 years; it's now more than a billion dollars-per-year.

This week I talk to Christie Donner, founder of the Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition. We discuss the current state of prisons in Colorado and across the US, and we spend some time digging into a few specific bills currently being debated by Colorado Legislators, including Good Samaritan Laws, fentanyls, safe use sites, and  education in prison. We also discuss Pell Grants, the school-to-prison pipeline, negative press coverage, and the ongoing staff crisis in departments of corrections across the country, specifically in Colorado.

You can watch the negative news coverage of La Vista Women's Prison Honor House on YouTube.

You can hear Dean Williams entire interview on the With(in) podcast, season 1, episode 1.

The DOC in crisis article Christie mentioned is available at ccjrc.org. 

DeMarisa and Dorian discuss a real-life situation involving youth facing direct impact from the prison industrial complex and pipeline.

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Last week we discussed the nothing burger that the January 6th committee is. But what is the real agenda? And much do Americans care? 

Mayra Flores wins the congressional special election in Texas' 34th district. A boarder district. And she is a Mexican immigrant and a REPUBLICAN. It's interesting to say the least. 

Ten Democrats and Ten Republicans reach a tentative, bi-partisan agreement for a bill on gun legislation. It's not a done deal and it's got a long way to go. But is it good or bad? 

How Woke Is Too Woke?: Perpetuating the "School to Prison Pipeline" because children use the "wrong" words. 

The USA Today admits it's lies and actually does the right thing. Will others follow suit?

In this episode, I interview Special Education Attorney, Lindsay Appell, about your rights and your child’s rights when it comes to school discipline. This is a very important topic because parents need to be proactive in educating themselves about what is appropriate handling of a situation and what is not. Most importantly,  you need to know how to handle a discipline situation when it arises. 

Lindsay also shares the single most powerful thing you can do to protect your child if they encounter school discipline or become the victim of school violence.

Listen now and become more empowered about your rights and your child's rights!

Additional Resources Relevant to This Episode:

Behavior and Discipline Parent Toolkit: https://www.disabilityrightsca.org/resources/special-education/behavior-and-discipline-toolkit

Special Education Rights & Responsibilities (SERR) Manual Chapter 8: https://serr.disabilityrightsca.org/serr-manual/chapter-8-information-on-discipline-of-students-with-disabilities/

SERR Chapter 15: https://serr.disabilityrightsca.org/serr-manual/chapter-15-information-on-the-rights-of-students-with-behavioral-needs-and-students-who-are-bullied/

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Inspired by their conversations and experiences with the young people at RISE for Youth and their own backgrounds, artists Courtney Lebow and Hamilton Glass talk about how their mural in the Fan neighborhood of Richmond was shaped by their experiences with the young leaders and how they see themselves and want to be seen in the community. 

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The public art created for Mending Walls addresses where we are now in society to inspire conversation about how we can move forward with empathy through understanding and collaboration.  

Resources for this episode: 

• RISE for Youth 

More information:

• Mending Walls RVA Mural Project
• Hamilton Glass
• Courtney Lebow 

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• @hamglass
• @courtney.lebow
•  @mendingwallsrva
•  @19red.fuel

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• 19RED @ Fuel
• In Your Ear Studios

Mending Walls: The Documentary airs on VPM PBS.

Ariel sits down with documentary filmmaker Garrett Zevgetis and healer-activist Vivian Anderson, founder of Every Black Girl, to discuss the premiere of Spring Valley at SXSW.  The film is an exploration of the full context of one viral video, demonstrating the way that one small clip can generate a flurry of media activity without any acknowledgement of the larger patchwork of history and trauma behind it.

Hilderbrand Pelzer III is an award-winning educator with three decades of wide-ranging experience. Having served as an assistant regional superintendent, a principal, an assistant principal, and a teacher, Pelzer is highly familiar with the interconnected pathway of educational problems and solutions from the classroom to the district level. 

As the author of Unlocking Potential: Organizing a School Inside a Prison, Pelzer has earned a national reputation for his achievements in expanding opportunities in highly challenging schools and educational environments. Among his many notable accomplishments is the creation of an evidence-based school model for incarcerated youth in Philadelphia’s correctional facilities. His passion for education and disadvantaged youth has equipped him to meet the needs of the most underserved students, demonstrated in his achievement of numerous national and local awards. 

Pelzer is also a speaker. His presentations highlight the intersection of education and incarceration. His TEDx talk “What Incarcerated Youth Can Teach Teachers” illuminates issues related to inadequate reading instruction, educational inequities, and illiteracy in the juvenile justice system. Pelzer’s education perspective is defined by incarcerated youths’ experience with school failure and the belief that their insights can strengthen educators understanding of when and how to raise the academic bar while teaching. 

Joshua B. Hoe interviews Jamira Burley about the school-to-prison pipeline

Full show notes can be found on our website https://decarcerationnation.com/

M. Adams, Co-Executive Director of Freedom, Inc, talks with host Max Rameau about Black-Asian solidarity, lessons from multiracial organizing in a mostly white Midwest city, and their recent victory in removing police from schools in Madison, Wisconsin.

M. Adams is a community organizer and co-executive director of Freedom Inc. Born and raised in Milwaukee, Adams has been in Madison since 2003. Adams’s dad has been incarcerated most of her life and she comes from a community that has been the extreme targets of police violence.  In March 2016, Adams’s mother transitioned after fighting cancer and many forms of violence. Adams is also a parent and sees her family as a primary motivator for her work. 

As a queer Black person, Adams has developed and advocated for a strong intersectional approach in numerous important venues. Adams is a leading figure in the Take Back the Land Movement, she presented before the United Nations for the Convention on Eliminating Racial Discrimination, she is a co-author of Forward from Ferguson and a paper on Black community control over the police, and she contributed to intersectionality theory in Why Killing Unarmed Black folks is a Queer issue.

Freedom, Inc. (FI) is a Black and Southeast Asian non-profit organization that works with low- to no-income communities of color in Madison, Wisconsin. Their mission is to achieve social justice through coupling direct services with leadership development and community organizing that will bring about social, political, cultural, and economic change resulting in the end of violence against women, gender-non-conforming and transgender folks, and children within communities of color. FI works to challenge the root causes of violence, poverty, racism and discrimination. Their belief is that people who are most affected by these issues must have voice, power, resources and choice, in order for true social change to happen.

See more of the work of host Max Rameau at pacapower.org. Stay subscribed to The Next World for more news from the frontlines of movements for justice and liberation.

You can read more about the issues we explore on our podcast and much more at dignityandrights.org, the website of Partners for Dignity & Rights.

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So far in Public Hearing Season 1, we’ve talked with people working across different systems including public education, juvenile justice, and child welfare as well as with individuals who have lived some of these experiences. In this episode, Josh talks with Dr. Mariel Novas; educator, innovator, immigrant, and community builder, about the cross-section of these systems and how intersectionality plays a role in the movement of our nation (and whether that movement is backwards or forwards).

More about Mariel!
More on WEC.
More on DYS.
Check out this bit on Teach for America Mass!
MEEP? Yes you heard that correctly.

How might we redesign the juvenile justice system so it is antiracist, developmentally appropriate, and transformative? We spoke to Katie Byrne who works for the Department of Youth Services as part of the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI). JDAI has made significant progress in decreasing the number of youth in juvenile detention over the past 10 years, but when you break that down by race and ethnicity, some groups have decreased more than others.

Learn more about JDAI here.
Take a look at the Anne E. Casey Foundation
More on Bryan Stevenson.

Public hearing is produced by Action! by Design. Executive Produced and Hosted by Joshua Croke. Creative Production by Myka Papetti. Audio Editing and Mixing done by Giuliano D'Orazio. Special thanks to Wyle Schumacher, our summer intern, for all the great work! 

This episode, adapted from a recent webinar hosted by Partners for Dignity & Rights, is an important conversation on community solutions to the interconnected crises we are facing in this political moment. Liz Sullivan-Yuknis of Partners for Dignity & Rights facilitated a conversation with frontline organizations, including: 

Scot Nakagawa, ChangeLab
Adriana Foster, United Workers
Letha Muhammad, Education Justice Alliance & Dignity In Schools Campaign
Crystal Hayling, The Libra Foundation
and poet Sunni Patterson.

See more of the work of host Max Rameau at pacapower.org and Sha'Condria "iCon" Sibley at icontheartist.com. Thank you to Jesse Strauss for Audio Mixing and Editing. Stay subscribed to The Next World for more news from the frontlines of movements for justice and liberation.

You can read more about the issues we explore on our podcast and much more at dignityandrights.org, the website of Partners for Dignity & Rights.

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Join me for a chat with author, poet, activist and ex-inmate Chandra Bozelko about all things prison. Our inside views of the prison-industrial complex gave us both a lot of insight into criminal "corrections." And as inmate-workers who both wiggled our way up the short ladder of prison labor, we had lots to talk about. 

We also discussed the way power works in prison, the nature of change in a system designed to prevent it, and the double-edged sword of attempting to reform prison labor. 

For more information on ending the school to prison pipeline, check out this letter signed by hundreds of NYC school leaders urging the Mayor to transfer School Safety Agents to the supervision of principals rather than the NYPD, and the websites of the YA-YA Network and Dignity in Schools campaign. 

To find out about the campaign of Teens Take Charge to end school admission screens, check out their website; see also their proposals about how the SYEP could be reconfigured to meet the needs of youth and the community at this time.