An examination of the school-to-prison pipeline through analysis of education and prosecution res... more An examination of the school-to-prison pipeline through analysis of education and prosecution resources, compared to demographics and literacy rates of public high school students and juvenile defendants in Little Rock, Arkansas.
This paper examines the school-to-prison pipeline in Little Rock Arkansas, a place of National Historic significance because of its place in history as a flash-point in our nation's history of our federal system of government, public education, and racial justice.
The school-to-prison pipeline perpetuates social stratification through long-term maintenance of inequitable systems and institutions. This paper expresses this dynamic through presentation of rates of literacy and prosecutions as compared to demographics and relative public accountability of each. Findings relate to the concurrence of under-served schools and students, high-cost, low-performing, un-accountable senior administration, and juvenile defendants and prosecutions. In the public school district, relative resources and power of public institutions are disparately distributed in an entrenched status quo that remains firmly in place despite a state takeover four years ago.
There are presently insufficient mechanisms for the stakeholder public to access basic and important information about the operations and performance of their local county court house juvenile divisions. New means of access to information are needed to gauge the effectiveness of the adults responsible for delivering these important public services with life-long implications for all of our community’s young people and families they serve.
Schools and prisons are connected through allocations of police power and financial resources at all levels. The status quo perpetuates youth failure while it rewards adult failure, and it entrenches identifiable adults at the expense of the same youth and families they are employed to serve. When children and their families cannot enjoy and exercise the benefits of their rights as Americans, the general welfare is undermined, and these dynamics work against the well-being of a healthy society.
An examination of the school-to-prison pipeline through analysis of education and prosecution res... more An examination of the school-to-prison pipeline through analysis of education and prosecution resources, compared to demographics and literacy rates of public high school students and juvenile defendants in Little Rock, Arkansas.
This paper examines the school-to-prison pipeline in Little Rock Arkansas, a place of National Historic significance because of its place in history as a flash-point in our nation's history of our federal system of government, public education, and racial justice.
The school-to-prison pipeline perpetuates social stratification through long-term maintenance of inequitable systems and institutions. This paper expresses this dynamic through presentation of rates of literacy and prosecutions as compared to demographics and relative public accountability of each. Findings relate to the concurrence of under-served schools and students, high-cost, low-performing, un-accountable senior administration, and juvenile defendants and prosecutions. In the public school district, relative resources and power of public institutions are disparately distributed in an entrenched status quo that remains firmly in place despite a state takeover four years ago.
There are presently insufficient mechanisms for the stakeholder public to access basic and important information about the operations and performance of their local county court house juvenile divisions. New means of access to information are needed to gauge the effectiveness of the adults responsible for delivering these important public services with life-long implications for all of our community’s young people and families they serve.
Schools and prisons are connected through allocations of police power and financial resources at all levels. The status quo perpetuates youth failure while it rewards adult failure, and it entrenches identifiable adults at the expense of the same youth and families they are employed to serve. When children and their families cannot enjoy and exercise the benefits of their rights as Americans, the general welfare is undermined, and these dynamics work against the well-being of a healthy society.
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This paper examines the school-to-prison pipeline in Little Rock Arkansas, a place of National Historic significance because of its place in history as a flash-point in our nation's history of our federal system of government, public education, and racial justice.
The school-to-prison pipeline perpetuates social stratification through long-term maintenance of inequitable systems and institutions. This paper expresses this dynamic through presentation of rates of literacy and prosecutions as compared to demographics and relative public accountability of each. Findings relate to the concurrence of under-served schools and students, high-cost, low-performing, un-accountable senior administration, and juvenile defendants and prosecutions. In the public school district, relative resources and power of public institutions are disparately distributed in an entrenched status quo that remains firmly in place despite a state takeover four years ago.
There are presently insufficient mechanisms for the stakeholder public to access basic and important information about the operations and performance of their local county court house juvenile divisions. New means of access to information are needed to gauge the effectiveness of the adults responsible for delivering these important public services with life-long implications for all of our community’s young people and families they serve.
Schools and prisons are connected through allocations of police power and financial resources at all levels. The status quo perpetuates youth failure while it rewards adult failure, and it entrenches identifiable adults at the expense of the same youth and families they are employed to serve. When children and their families cannot enjoy and exercise the benefits of their rights as Americans, the general welfare is undermined, and these dynamics work against the well-being of a healthy society.
This paper examines the school-to-prison pipeline in Little Rock Arkansas, a place of National Historic significance because of its place in history as a flash-point in our nation's history of our federal system of government, public education, and racial justice.
The school-to-prison pipeline perpetuates social stratification through long-term maintenance of inequitable systems and institutions. This paper expresses this dynamic through presentation of rates of literacy and prosecutions as compared to demographics and relative public accountability of each. Findings relate to the concurrence of under-served schools and students, high-cost, low-performing, un-accountable senior administration, and juvenile defendants and prosecutions. In the public school district, relative resources and power of public institutions are disparately distributed in an entrenched status quo that remains firmly in place despite a state takeover four years ago.
There are presently insufficient mechanisms for the stakeholder public to access basic and important information about the operations and performance of their local county court house juvenile divisions. New means of access to information are needed to gauge the effectiveness of the adults responsible for delivering these important public services with life-long implications for all of our community’s young people and families they serve.
Schools and prisons are connected through allocations of police power and financial resources at all levels. The status quo perpetuates youth failure while it rewards adult failure, and it entrenches identifiable adults at the expense of the same youth and families they are employed to serve. When children and their families cannot enjoy and exercise the benefits of their rights as Americans, the general welfare is undermined, and these dynamics work against the well-being of a healthy society.