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Michelle Alexander Endorses FFLIC Campaign to end Suspensions

Michelle Alexander, legal scholar and best-selling author of The New Jim Crow, endorses the campaign by Families and Friends of Louisiana’s Incarcerated Children (FFLIC) to end unnecessary suspensions. New Orleans Parent Group Takes Part in National Week of Action on School Push-out Calls for an…

FullSteam LabsOctober 2, 2013

School to Prison Pipeline

National Week of Action Against School Pushouts

High Out-of-School Suspension Rates Lead New Orleans Parents and Community to Take Action New Orleans Parents and Advocates Take Part in National Week of Action on School Pushout and Call for an End to Out-of-School Suspensions for Minor Offenses On Saturday, September 28, 2013 members…

FullSteam LabsOctober 1, 2013

50/2017 Campaign

Campaign Platform

Families and Friends of Louisiana’s Incarcerated Children (FFLIC) Platform: 50/2017 Campaign: Building a Movement To Stop the School To Prison Pipeline Preamble: Louisiana’s legislature responded to the community outcry for change by passing the Juvenile Justice Reform Act of 2003 (“Act 1225”) and House…

FullSteam LabsMay 13, 2013

50/2017 Campaign

50/2017 Campaign: Building a Movement To Stop the School To Prison Pipeline

Families and Friends of Louisiana’s Incarcerated Children 50/2017 Campaign: Building a Movement To Stop the School To Prison Pipeline OFFICIAL LAUNCH: Saturday, April 20, 2013 12:45 – 01:15 Lindy Boggs Center, UNO SCHOOL OR PRISON – WHICH WOULD YOU WANT FOR YOUR CHILD? Increase FFLIC’s…

FullSteam LabsApril 19, 2013

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear

Ambrose Redmoon

School to Prison Pipeline

National Journal Opinion: Why the U.S. Must Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline

The story of a quaint Mississippi town accused of systematically imprisoning students for minor offenses—such as wearing the wrong color socks—and punishing them without due process of law may sound like the plot of a cooked-up horror story, but in Meridian, Miss., it’s a sad…

FullSteam LabsJanuary 26, 2013