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Senate Bill 42: Moving Backwards
ADVOCACY ALERT! Georgia Senate Bill 42 (SB 42) would remove student discipline from the school climate star rating indicator on our school’s report card. Gwinnett SToPP successfully advocated for the inclusion of student discipline in the indicator to make sure that a student’s entire school experience was considered when determining school climate. Georgia’s children are…
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School Code of Conduct Committee Update
School Code of Conduct Committee Update A committee of GCPS staff and community members formed in January 2020 to perform a comprehensive review of the Student Conduct Behavior Code, and the operational practices associated with implementing the policy. However, the committee was given a deadline of April 1 to address the policies and practices related…
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…
First Name, Last Name
I am sick and tired. Actually, I have reached a point where I am sick and tired of being sick and tired. Over the 4th of July weekend, there was an attempted lynching. If you did not know, the last “recorded” lynching, emphasis on recorded, occurred in Mobile, Alabama; Michael Donald, 19 years old,…
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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…
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Upcoming Community Meeting – We’ve Been Corona’d
Thanks to the coronavirus, our next community meeting will be held via video/phone conference on Monday, April 13, 2020, 7:00-8:30pm. Check out the agenda and get meeting credentials.