To read more about Texas Appleseed’s School-to-Prison Pipeline work, please check out our:
- Publications, including
- Guarding Our Most Precious Resources: Comparing the Staffing of Counselors and Mental Health Professionals to Police in Texas Schools, March 2019
- Shadow Discipline in Texas Schools: How Informal Discipline Impacts Students and Families, February 2019
- Texas — The State of School Discipline: A Look at the Data, 2017-2018, February 2019
- Make My School Safe: A Toolkit for Students, Parents, Caregivers, Educators, Advocates, and Policymakers who Want to Ensure ALL Students are Kept Safe in their Schools, September 2018
- Collateral Consequences: The Increase in Texas Student Arrests Following the Parkland and Santa Fe Tragedies, July 2018
- Dangerous Discipline: How Texas Schools are Relying on Law Enforcement, Courts, and Juvenile Probation to Discipline Students, December 2016
- Suspended Childhood: An Analysis of Exclusionary Discipline of Texas’ Pre-K and Elementary School Students, Initial release November 2015 | Updated April 2017
- Class, Not Court: Reconsidering Texas’ Criminalization of Truancy (Full Report), March 2015
- Class, Not Court: Reconsidering Texas’ Criminalization of Truancy (Executive Summary), March 2015
- Texas’ School-to-Prison Pipeline: Ticketing, Arrest & Use of Force in Schools, December 2010
- Resources, including
- Political Speech in Schools: Know Your Rights, March 2018
- Video: Protect the Federal School Discipline Guidance Package, December 2017
- Supporting Students Who are Coping With Trauma: Post-Disaster Tips, September 2017
- End Austin’s Juvenile Curfew Ordinance Infographic, September 2017
- An End to Out-of-School Suspensions for Texas’ Youngest Students Infographic, August 2017
- El Final de los Suspensiones Afuera de Escuela Para los Estudiantes Mas Jovenes de Texas, Agosto 2017
- Comment on the Texas Education Agency’s Proposed Truancy Guidelines, October 2016
- Ending Suspensions for Young Children Policy Guide, February 2016
- School Resource Officer Training: Legislative Update, 2015
- Truancy Reform: Legislative Update, 2015
- Video: Texas’ New Truancy Law, An Overview, 2015
- Press Releases, including
- Civil Rights Groups Send Letter to Needville ISD Over Threats to Punish Student Protesters, February 2018
- New Report on School Policing, Courts, and Juvenile Probation, December 2016
- 12-year-old Body Slammed by School Resource Officer Shows Continuing Criminalization of Youth of Color, April 2016
- Nine Groups Call for Gov. Abbott to Appoint Task Force to Address School Policing, May 2016
- School Police in McKinney, Texas, Arrest and Ticket African American Students at Excessive and Unequal Rates, August 2015
- Complaint Charges Texas School Districts with Using Truancy Courts to Force Students with Disabilities Out of School, May 2015
- Media Coverage, including
- Houston Schools Ban Suspensions in Early Grades, The Texas Observer
- After Texas Pool Beating, Advocates Push for School Police Training, Rolling Stone
- Deconstructing School Discipline, NPR’s Science Friday