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Addressing the School-to-Prison Pipeline
- 1/15/2011
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The public education system is the gateway by which many of the 150,000 Texas juveniles arrested each year first come into contact with the criminal justice system. Schools are increasingly likely to use disciplinary measures that take children out of the classroom for even minor offenses and enter them into the correctional system, a trend advocates term the "school-to-prison pipeline." There are key things, however, that Texas can do to bring more common sense to school discipline and reduce the number of kids unnecessarily being introduced to the criminal justice system for routine misbehavior.
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