FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 18, 2020, Lawrenceville, Ga. – During this time in our nation’s history, the public has re-examined the role of police in our communities. We at Gwinnett SToPP have been calling for an end to overly harsh and ineffective discipline at Gwinnett County Public Schools (GCPS) since our founding in 2008. It…
Meet Isaiah T., one of our summer interns. Isaiah is a recent graduate from Grayson High School, and will attend Georgia Tech in the coming Fall. We look forward to Isaiah adding a more youthful perspective to the organization. I will be majoring in Aerospace Engineering and minoring in Public Policy, an uncanny combination; I…
Meet Amina B, one of our summer interns. Amina is a Junior Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies major at Georgia State, driven to create systemic and communal changes from an intersectional approach. She began her journey in high school where she attended Meadowcreek High School and was made aware of the various challenges students face…
Our children have a very different school experience than most of us growing up. When we acted up, we were sent to the principal’s office—now they can be arrested. Police in schools have changed that dynamic to the point of trauma. Sure, maybe the concept of police in schools is well-intentioned. When children are gunned…
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.
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…
Just as the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) put many of us under stay at home orders, with schools shuttered, our children are sheltering in place as well. When GCPS turned to digital learning days for the remainder of the year, it focused a bright light on the digital divide that is a reality for too…
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…
A C T I O N A L E R T ! ! ! No one should be surprised that U.S. Department of Education wants to eliminate critical data from the 2019-2020 Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) that school systems are required to report such as: Pre-school suspension details (yes, pre-schoolers are suspended!) Number of…
Someone somewhere said, “Build it and they will come”. Gwinnett SToPP did just that for this year’s Dignity in Schools Week of Action event that was hosted at Georgia Gwinnett College in collaboration with the End Mass Incarceration GA Network, Georgia Council on Developmental Disabilities, GGC Psi Chi Honor Society and GGC Student Government…