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Closing the School to Prison Pipeline
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The Gault Center and the Georgetown Juvenile Justice Clinic & Initiative invite you to the 2022 Racial Justice Training Series.<br /><br />In this session, Prof. Kristin Henning and Ebony Howard, Deputy Director of The Gault Center, will be joined by Harold Jordan, Nationwide Education Equity Coordinator at the ACLU of Pennsylvania; Reyna Rollolazo, Community Engagement and Anti-Racism Director at TeamChild; and Amir Whitaker, Senior Policy Counsel at ACLU of Southern California and Founder and Director of Project KnuckleHead.<br /><br />Please join us to:<br />* Learn about the intersections of race, disabilities, and school discipline<br />* Review the historic evolution of police in schools<br />* Discuss disparate school discipline and school-based arrests in your jurisdiction<br />* Consider how we can use data, research, and history in our case advocacy and systemic reform<br /><br />This session will be built around Chapter 6, Cops in School, of Prof. Henning's book, The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth.<br /><br />Participants will:<br />* Develop concrete and actionable strategies to use data, research, and history in individual client representation, policy advocacy, and systemic reform;<br />* Learn about the most recent data and research on the topic;<br />* Have an opportunity to submit questions in advance;<br />* Share local obstacles and potential solutions during the session;<br />* Receive handouts, including sample motions, pleadings, and updated annotated bibliographies.<br /><br />While The Rage of Innocence focuses on Black youth, these sessions will also focus on advocacy for Latinx, Indigenous, Native American, and other youth of color.