Series: The School-to-Prison Pipeline

Buffalo Public School students are putting their voice toward overhauling the system of suspensions in their district and pushing for more restorative approaches to discipline.

Funneling students out of classrooms and into prison is a problem for kids of color, but what solutions are being tried?In the final part of our weeklong…

The pipeline concept is that out-of-school suspensions can lead to negative outcomes and that dropping out of school can send some students, mostly people…

David Wright is well aware of the negative outcomes associated with dropping out of school.“I always had problems in school growing up,” Wright said.…

What is the school-to-prison pipeline? What does it look like in Western New York, and what’s being done about it? A joint series from WBFO’s Education…