The original #SolutionsNotSuspensions bill offers the necessary protections for students of color and students with disabilities across NY, who have been criminalized in schools for too long.
The legislature should pass the Assembly version of the bill and enact it into law.
The NYS Senate introduced a weakened version of our #SolutionsNotSuspensions bill that would allow racist policies to continue to suspend us Black + Brown students.
We urge all legislators to vote NO on this bill!
Read the memo we signed with our powerful partners below ✊🏿
On my way to Albany to make one last push this legislative session for #SolutionsNotSuspensions
Solutions Not Suspensions
Proud of my guest essay in Newsday Opinion
It's time for #SolutionsNotSuspensions .
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Federal education data reveals “Black students were disciplined at a higher rate [than white students].' new NYU Metro Center #blogpost examines #restorativejustice , & the potential impact of the #SolutionsNotSuspensionsAct , currently before New York State Senate. Read here: bit.ly/43pacq8
Check out our statewide organizer for education and child care, Shoshana Hershkowitz, writing in Newsday Opinion why we need #SolutionsNotSuspensions ! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Carmen, a parent from Rochester with The Children's Agenda says that we MUST pass a powerful #SolutionsNotSuspensions Act for our children’s well-being.
Holding out for Real #SolutionsNotSuspensions bc how do we know that judgements of 'rowdy and insubordinate' won't reflect #ImplicitBias and lack of training on how #disabilities manifest?
We can't prepare and educate young people when they're excluded from school. New York must take steps to advance restorative practices and ensure suspensions are only used as a last resort. Join me in urging NYS to pass the #SolutionsNotSuspensions Act! actionnetwork.org/letters/new-yo…
Our student leader, Sky, making the case for why we can’t pass Senate’s current version of the #SolutionsNotSuspensions Act:
“I missed a whole day of class. During suspension, I was only given one worksheet for the whole day without any instruction.”
We are here in Albany to demand it does NOT pass the current version of the Senate’s #SolutionsNotSuspensions Act which guts our original bill and makes too many exceptions to suspend students which will continue disproportionately harming us students of color.
A student on LI was suspended for more than 6 months in 2019, losing valuable learning time & falling behind his peers. This is unacceptable & why we must pass #SolutionsNotSuspensions now, which'll cut the max length of suspensions from 180 to 20 days.
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It’s time to pass the #SolutionsNotSuspensions Act to ensure that our students education isnt put at risk from inequitable and ineffective suspensions. This bill requires schools to use proven alternatives to suspensions, which promote accountability but keep our kids in school.
There is one week left to the 2023 legislative session. Carl E. Heastie, Sen. Stewart-Cousins, Assembly Majority, NYS Senate Democrats- it's time to pass #SolutionsNotSuspensions for our young people! We've waited for 8 years. Pass this bill in its entirety.
We don't want a watered down bill that furthers #CriminalizationNotCare
We stand with our partners and demand a REAL #SolutionsNotSuspensions bill.
VOTE NO!
Read their statement below!
Inequity in school discipline policies impact students with disabilities, #LGBTQIA +, #Black , #Latino , & Native American students. Check out NYU Metro Center Reed Swier's testimony before New York State Senate in support of #SolutionsNotSuspensions Bill. Watch here: bit.ly/43pacq8
We’d like to thank the Assembly’s #SolutionsNotSuspensions sponsor Michaelle C. Solages for saying that we deserve a bill that fully protects the most marginalized & oppressed students.
