Fwd: [DCOH Announcements] 3/25: WSU Journal of Law in Society Symposium: "Deconstructing the School-to-Prison Pipeline"

[Evan Major]

thought some of you may be interested in this. full descriptions in the attached documents.

-evan

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Date: Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 4:50 PM
Subject: [DCOH Announcements] 3/25: WSU Journal of Law in Society Symposium: "Deconstructing the School-to-Prison Pipeline"
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On March 25, 2011, The Journal of Law in Society, a scholarly publication of Wayne State University Law School, and the Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights, will host a symposium entitled Deconstructing the School-to-Prison Pipeline. 

The “school-to-prison pipeline” refers to policies and practices that systemically push at-risk youth out of mainstream public schools and into the juvenile or criminal justice systems. The pipeline encompasses the growing use of zero-tolerance discipline, school-based arrests, disciplinary alternative schools, and secured detention to marginalize our most at-risk youth and deny them access to education. The event, which will include a number of educators, academics, lawyers, and judges, will provide a forum for the community to discuss potential solutions to this urgent civil rights issue.

Damon T. Hewitt, director of the Education Practice at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, will give the morning keynote address, and Russlynn H. Ali, assistant secretary for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education, will give the afternoon keynote address. The event will also feature the following confirmed panelists:

Panel I – Lost opportunities: The criminalization of students

·      Mark P. Fancher, staff attorney, ACLU of Michigan Racial Justice Project

·      Alexi Nunn Freeman, staff attorney, Advancement Project

·      Jeffery L. Edison, attorney, National Conference of Black Lawyers

·      I. India Geronimo, director of the Damon J. Keith Law Collection of African American Legal History at Wayne Law

Panel II – Creating an educational environment

·      Bill Sower, former regional coordinator for the International Institute for Restorative Practices

·      Hon. Jennifer Pilette, Wayne County Third Circuit Court, Family Division

·      Johanna Wald, director of Strategic Planning and Development, Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice

Panel III – Structuring legal reform

        ·      Justin Long, Assistant Professor of Law, Wayne State University Law School

·         Kary L. Moss, Executive Director ACLU of MI

·         Daniel J. Losen, Senior Education Law and Policy Associate at The Civil Rights Project at  UCLA

·         Jessica Feierman, supervising attorney, Juvenile Law Center

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Evan Major
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