Personal tools
You are here: Home Zero Tolerance Policies Bleed Education

Zero Tolerance Policies Bleed Education

Columbus Dispatch op-ed columnist Jack D'Aurora spoke with OPLC's Sarah Biehl about the school to prison pipeline and came away with an idea for this op-ed column. This piece does a great job of highlighting why zero tolerance policies and the overuse of suspension and expulsion in schools harms kids and communities.

Zero Tolerance Policies Bleed Education

 

In addition to the problems listed on the national report card it just received, Ohio’s education system must face the consequences of zero-tolerance policies: discrimination and higher incarceration rates.

 

Read more here.

 

Document Actions
Ohio Poverty Law Center    555 Buttles Avenue    Columbus, Ohio 43215    Phone: (614) 221-7201