A recent report summarized in an April 4, 2023, Los Angeles Times article highlights school transfers, a largely hidden segment of the school-to-prison pipeline. According to the Hechinger Report, transfers “represent a large yet hidden share of California’s exclusionary discipline, blocking students from attending their own schools and pushing them onto new campuses or intoContinueContinue reading “Report: Hidden expulsions? Schools kick students out but call it a ‘transfer’”
Author Archives: Mona Tawatao
Today is the 46th Anniversary of Washington v. Davis, a ruling that advanced white supremacy
For more than two decades, the Equal Justice Society has fought to reclaim the 14th Amendment by dismantling the “intent standard” established in the June 7, 1976, decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington v. Davis requiring an almost impossible burden on plaintiffs to prove decision-maker’s conscious intent to discriminate. Prior to the WashingtonContinueContinue reading “Today is the 46th Anniversary of Washington v. Davis, a ruling that advanced white supremacy”
On the Rittenhouse Trial Verdict
To many of us, the jury verdict that acquitted Kyle Rittenhouse of all charges was not a surprise. We live in an America where many of have come to expect that this is how the system works: a white man armed with an AR-15 rifle can cross state lines to a town not his own, killContinueContinue reading “On the Rittenhouse Trial Verdict”