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Sit Tight, Education is a Human Right!
This year, Gwinnett SToPP partnered with the ACLU of Georgia, Georgia Legal Services Program, and Interfaith Children’s Movement to conduct a day-long education civil rights workshop as part of the Dignity in Schools Campaign’s National Week of Action. Participants met at Salem Missionary Baptist Church in Lilburn, Georgia on October 21, 2017 to learn their…
- Education | News | Parents | Uncategorized
ESSA and Biden
The Biden Administration’s Approach to the ESSA Act Gwinnett SToPP and education advocates around the country are anticipating major changes from the Biden-Harris Administration. President-elect Biden promises that the Every Student Succeeds Act, which was signed into law under the Obama-Biden Administration in 2015, will receive significant reinforcements, overturning the Trump Administration’s approach to stripping…
- Advocacy Alert | News | Parents | Uncategorized | Youth
Gwinnett SToPP Mobilizes to Remove SROs from Gwinnett County Public Schools
Partners, stakeholders and friends, it is time to pay attention and get involved. The change we have been working for is here and we have work to do to make sure we capture it. This evening Marlyn Tillman will speak before the Gwinnett County School Board to demand an end to school resource officers in…
- Education | News | Parents | Uncategorized | Youth
7 Demands for A New Vision of Safety for GCPS
Gwinnett SToPP has worked to end overly harsh and ineffective discipline at Gwinnett County Public Schools (GCPS) since our founding in 2008. We won the demand to denote Official Code of Georgia Annotated (OCGA) violations in the GCPS Student/Parent Handbook that could result in a referral to a School Resource Officer (SRO) and possible criminal…
What you can do to help, even from home
We need your input. The more voices we have weighing in on proposed changes to the code of conduct, the more power we have in advocacy to make them happen. Please take a moment to read over our proposed changes and offer feedback at this link. Make your voice heard! Deadline for additions and feedback…
YLI and PLI To Be Offered Concurrently in January – Sign Up Today!
We need leaders today more than ever and Gwinnett SToPP is happy to step up and provide our road-tested and proven advocacy/activist leadership training once again to the young people and parents of Gwinnett County and the greater Atlanta metro area. For the third year in a row, we have tightened our timelines and created…