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Days after the schools chancellor released a series of proposed changes to the discipline code that would result in fewer suspensions and a greater reliance on counseling, the City Council Speaker has entered the fray, applauding the department for its efforts, but calling for even more reliance on alternative discipline methods.

High suspension rates will continue unless Bloomberg and Walcott require positive alternatives to suspension in all schools

High suspension rates will continue unless Bloomberg and Walcott take action to require positive alternatives in all schools

Press Kit

DSC-NY_PressRelease_May23.pdf

Bronx, NY -- On Thursday, May 10th, 2012, the New Settlement Parent Action Committee assembled Bronx parents, students, educators, faith leaders, community organizations, and advocates in a large community march entitled "Education, Not Incarceration!" protesting current New York City Department of Education (DOE) disciplinary polices that have contributed to moving children from school directly into the criminal justice system.

Before 6-year old Salecia Johnson was handcuffed in a Georgia classroom and escorted to the local police station after a tantrum last month, a 5-year-old autistic boy in Brooklyn was strapped to a stretcher, hauled out of his Brighton Beach classroom and taken in an ambulance to a psych ward on March 6.

Bronx, NY -- On March 8, 2012, the New Settlement Parent Action Committee gathered 100 parents, students, educators, and elected officials on the steps of the Bronx Borough President's office to express their outrage over the Bronx's shocking rates of school-based arrests and student summonses, and to demand positive disciplinary alternatives.

 While city schools might have been in mid-winter recess, many students were still busy, and making ample use of their downtime.

Approximately 50 students from across the city, including northern Manhattan and the Bronx, rallied together at One Police Plaza this past Wed., Feb. 22nd to demand that the New York Police Department (NYPD) stay out of their schools.

 NEW YORK—Most of us are used to going through metal detectors at times, such as before embarking on a plane trip, or going into a high-profile building.

Yet going through a metal detector is the beginning of every school day for many students in New York City.

A coalition of students, organizations, and elected officials on Wednesday gathered to protest numbers released showing 279 arrests and 532 summonses occurred during the fourth quarter of 2011—Oct. 1 to Dec. 31—in schools.

CORINNE LESTCH Thursday, March 08, 2012

Parents, students, teachers and a host of activist groups are holding a rally Thursday to protest hundreds of arrests made in New York City public schools.

The arrest data, released by the NYPD following a city law enacted last year, shows that cops arrested an average of five kids each day in city schools from Oct. 1, to Dec. 30, 2011.

 By Sam Levin Thu., Mar. 8 2012 at 5:05 PM

Add this to the list of grievances activists throughout the city have with the New York Police Department.