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’”
Category Archives: School-to-Prison
Staff Attorney Alex Santa Ana on Panel at NLADA Annual Conference
Staff Attorney Alex Santa Ana presented on a panel at the annual conference of the National Legal Aid & Defender Association (NLADA) held October 26-29 in Arlington, Virginia. The panel was on “Cultivating Impactful Organizational and Community Partnerships in Systemic Education Legal Advocacy.” Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County, Equal Justice Society, Disability RightsContinueContinue reading “Staff Attorney Alex Santa Ana on Panel at NLADA Annual Conference”
Calif. Dept. of Education Ignores Clear Patterns of Discrimination in School Discipline
A lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court on October 6, 2021, by NLSLA, Equal Justice Society, and pro bono counsel Mayer Brown LLP seeks to force the California Department of Education to increase monitoring of discipline data, expand reporting requirements to account for transfers, and investigate and address discriminatory discipline. Even as publiclyContinueContinue reading “Calif. Dept. of Education Ignores Clear Patterns of Discrimination in School Discipline”