The recent increase in school shootings, including Parkland, has put school safety on everybody’s mind. School violence, unfortunately, has also been an issue that hits us close to home. On January 10, 2018, a 16- year old girl was stabbed … Read More & Comment
Since the release of Dreams Deferred in 2013, WCA’s Connecting Youth workgroup has worked on remedies to re-engage youth disconnected from work and school. The report recommends districts, “reduce exclusionary/disciplinary and suspension practices in school and encourage restorative practices”. Student … Read More & Comment
Our schools treat certain children differently from their peers. Children, as young as preschoolers, are subject to discrimination and bias, which can alter their future in sinister ways. School disciplinary practices disproportionately affect children of color, and it is a … Read More & Comment
We’ve been paying attention to Chronic Absence since the beginning of the 2016-17 school year, and we are not alone. In addition to the ongoing national discussion, local media has also been covering this topic: the Journal News featured chronic … Read More & Comment
We’ve looked into the first national data set on Chronic Absence to see what school attendance is like in Westchester County. Read More & Comment
I have never been a big fan of School “Perfect Attendance” Awards. As a somewhat sickly child, I could never get one of those things, and it invoked in me a somewhat disproportionate sense of injustice: Why should somebody … Read More & Comment
