How will COVID-19 school closures impact Michigan’s most vulnerable students?

**** Updated: March 27, 2020 **** How are COVID-19 school closures in Michigan and around the nation likely to impact our students who are already vulnerable and far behind academically?  We’ve pulled together this blog post to help you better understand what’s happening in real-time and offer some basic principles all of us can embrace as we continue to advocate …

Hope for Students launches campaign calling state governments in GA, NC, MI, MN and MD to embrace restorative discipline; eliminate racial disparities

Hope for Students is a national movement of people of faith committed to eliminating disparities in our public education system, especially along lines of race and class. We believe all God’s children deserve a world-class education. For this reason, we also believe that no child should be punished more often, or more severely, in our schools due to the color …

Advocate for these FIVE reforms to protect students from harmful discipline practices

Punishing black students more often than white students not only betrays our values as people of faith, it’s a reminder that our nation’s painful history of institutional racism continues to undermine the promise of a high-quality public education for all. We can, and must, do better. Addressing the extreme racial disparities in school discipline will require a shift in how …

Michigan School Discipline Report Card 2020

This Michigan School Discipline Report Card is focused on five policy goals aimed at protecting students from harmful practices and addressing racial disparities, including: 1) Increased Transparency and Reporting; 2) Embracing Restorative Models; 3) Reforming Suspension Guidelines; 4) Improving Counselor-to-Student Ratios; 5) Banning Corporal Punishment To learn more about each of these policy goals, please read this blog post: Advocate …