In January 2016, Gwinnett SToPP, along with Dignity in Schools Campaign (DSC) members Racial Justice Now! (Ohio), Citizens for a Better Greenville (Mississippi), ACLU of Pennsylvania, and our federal partner, NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund Inc, provided testimony to U.S. Department of Education (ED) on the implementation of school climate and discipline reforms. The…
On July 30th at 3:00pm EDT, The Department of Education (ED) will host a google hangout with experts to discuss “The Hidden Cost of Suspension.” We encourage you to join us – on either Google+ or on YouTube – to follow the dialogue with: Michael Yudin, Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services Russell Skiba…
After over a year of dedicated work from a number of community leaders including GCPS staff and various local civic organizations, we have completed a comprehensive review of GCPS fighting policy and are recommending changes at a series of town hall meetings this summer. Please come to at least one of our meetings so that…
Friends of Gwinnett SToPP – if you have been curious about our Parent Leadership Training, but worried about the commitment of an eight-month program, we have good news for you! Starting this year, we are offering each training session ala carte to Gwinnett parents interested in learning about education advocacy. Whether you are an…
Congratulations to the graduates of this year’s Parent Leadership Institute. Over the course of six months the participants met with national policy makers, legal experts, educational experts and data analysts to get a complete picture of national educational trends and what they mean on a local level. Each participant has been involved in the…
The Good News This week the state legislature is exploring a number of education reform bills. We aren’t sure what value they have in total but it is definitely a good thing that legislators are turning their attention back to the quality of education being served up in Georgia. It would seem that the…
Statistics Are Shocking for a “World-Class” District February 13, 2015 – Graduation data released this week by the Schott Foundation for Public Education reveals shockingly low on-time graduation rates for Caucasian and African-American male students – 61 percent for Caucasian males and only 41 percent for African-American males – in Gwinnett County. This rate –…
This year the Georgia Partners of the Dignity in Schools Campaign hosted two recent events in conjunction with the National Week of Action. On October 4th, we hosted the 2nd Annual March and Rally Against School Pushout at the Casey University Avenue Site in the Pittsburgh community of Atlanta. The second event was a School…
The Georgia Partners of the Dignity in Schools Campaign Week of Action and Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School will offer a free seminar regarding school to prison pipeline issues, Saturday October 11 from 10:00 am to 12:30 pm at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Gwinnett. Learn your rights as a parent and your children’s rights…
Do you want the red pill or the blue pill? To participate in the Parent Leadership Institute, you have to have the courage to take the red pill and learn the extent of the challenge you face advocating for your children. Last weekend, the new class of advocates kicked off with a two-day retreat…