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What's Next? | Students, Suspensions, and Solutions: A Buffalo Public Schools Update

Published November 20, 2024 at 2:37 PM EST
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Today, we sit down for an update on suspensions in Buffalo Public Schools. For our first segment, Jay Moran sits down with Jessica Bauer-Walker, a Community Health Worker and a Buffalo Public Schools parent, and Sam White, Supervising Attorney for the School Discipline Project at Western New York Law Center. The three discuss the Buffalo Suspension Coalition and a recent report on suspensions from Buffalo Public Schools. For our second segment, Guest Host Jillian Hanesworth sits down with Jessica Bauer Walker, and Rehma Kashindi, a Youth Community Health Worker to discuss suspensions from the perspective of a BPS student.

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