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…
We are doing it again!! This October we are looking forward to the 10th anniversary of the Dignity in Schools Campaign (DSC) National Week of Action (WoA)! As a member of DSC, Gwinnett SToPP will again host a local WoA event. The theme this year is “Educate Students Stop Arrests” which is play on…
School’s out, but we are hard at work preparing for Year Two of our ending the school to prison pipeline project in partnership with the Georgia Council on Developmental Disabilities. That’s right! We have been given the green light to move forward to the training phase of this coalition-building effort. The second activity of this…
The parents’ and children’s advocacy groups Gwinnett SToPP, The Georgia Council on Developmental Disabilities, and The Interfaith Children’s Movement are continuing their quest to educate the community about the inherit dangers black boys in special education face in school daily. The purpose of these community meetings is to provide quality education for all children,…
Gwinnett County Public Schools (GCPS) issued a statement regarding student participation in the National School Walkout on March 14th. Gwinnett responded with its typical punish and pushout stance. You can read our response here. Some students are hesitant to participate in the walkout for fear of being overly punished. That’s where parents and adults come…
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…
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…
The School To Prison Pipeline affects us all. You are not alone.