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THE SCHOOL-TO-PRISON

PIPELINE
A look into the adultification of students in the Bronx.
Today’s
Agenda

01 02 03
Define School-to-Prison
Impacted Groups Testimonials
pipeline

04 05

Group Discussion Next Steps


What do you think the
School-to-Prison pipeline is?
Defining the
School-to-Prison
Pipeline
● The school-to-prison pipeline results from a combination
of local, state, and federal policies that push students out
of school and into the criminal justice system.
○ Stems from:
■ School discipline
■ Policing in schools
■ Wealth distribution
■ The prison industrial complex
PIPELINE MOSTLY IMPACTS:

STUDENTS WITH
BLACK & BROWN
01 01 PREVIOUS 03
STUDENTS
SUSPENSIONS

02

03
DIFFERENTLY ABLED UNDERFUNDED
02 04
STUDENTS SCHOOLS

04
SSA Reports by Borough (2022-23)

Bronx students make up about 1 in 5 of total city


wide enrollment, but 1 in 4 of total SSA reports

Bronx students are disproportionately targeted by SSA (School


Safety Agent) reports
Citywide

Black & Hispanic


students are
disproportionately
targeted by SSA reports

Black students are 20%


of total citywide
enrollment but 49% of
total SSA reports

Hispanic students are


41% of total citywide
enrollment but 38% of
total SSA reports
The Bronx

Black students make


up 24% of Bronx
enrollment but 43% of
Bronx SSA reports
MDRs
In
NYC

During these meetings, white students receive


benefit of doubt. (38.7% positive manifestation
rate in 21-22 school year). Black and Latinx
students do not. (Only 28.1% and 22.3% rate, in
21-22 school year).
Testimonial
s
Group Discussion
Group Discussion Notes
● It takes a village to raise a child; this is a situation that everyone
needs to be involved in. Bring back communities caring for each
other (e.g., teachers knowing your family and helping to care for
you)
● We should send students to places and resources that will help
them. Ex:
○ Programs that connect students to therapy
● Policies fuel what’s happening now (e.g., fueling mass incarceration,
sending people to Rikers)
● Educate our communities on how to research politicians and vote
wisely
● No need for school safety agents for children. What happened to
guidance counselors.
Group Discussion Notes
● Restore and rebuild vs react and retract
○ Many current services in our education system pull children out
of school and push them into the streets where they have to
fend for themselves. It doesn’t restore them to schools.
○ Systemic changes that need to happen requires a partnership
between teachers, parents, students, police officers (even if we
don’t like them), etc. We all need to work together to end the
cycle of students being pulled out of school.
● Challenges: poverty, poor schools, incarceration, lack of safe spaces
& mental health supports
○ Needs:
■ Redirecting support services
● ACS put 43 million dollars into building more beds. Imagine what
the community could do with that sort of funding.
Group Discussion Notes
● Desired solutions
○ Peer educators
○ Credible ___
○ Restorative justice instead of punitive
○ Increased parent voice
○ Really have a community school model instead of calling ACS
○ Wrap-around services
○ Encourage positive reinforcement
○ Adults need to ask more questions; find out what’s going on;
know your students
○ Engage young people and families and communities in creating
safety plans

● Tax money from buildings that have stores under them is being sent
to ACS instead of schools.
Group Discussion Notes
● Connecting Bronx students to job opportunities with multi dollar
businesses (e.g., Yankee Stadium)
● Pipeline requires fuel so if prisons are always profitable then
students will always be pulled into the pipeline because they are
wanted to ensure prisons are still profitable
● ACS’ viciousness is real and harmful
● We need to come together to create our own educational systems
(e.g., Black farmers teaching their community to grow and eat health
food)
● Teach our kids how to speak up for themselves: say anything you
want to adult as long as you are respectful. Articulate yourself.
○ Lawyered up service: we want youth to represent themselves
○ The pen is more mighty than anything else
Group Discussion Notes
● More Civics in schools within curriculums or after schools programs
○ And teaching nationality better because citizenship waives
your rights (anytime you register to vote, your car, etc);
advocating nationality in order to perfect the system
Next Steps
Thank you!
RESOURCES FOR STUDENTS

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