End the School to Jail Track

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Through grassroots, youth-led organizing, Padres & Jóvenes Unidos leads local and statewide campaigns to end harsh discipline practices that push students out of school for minor misbehavior.

In Denver, we lead a local-level accountability campaign to force Denver Public Schools to implement our hard-fought policy wins.  Across Colorado, we organize and educate students around discipline reform through youth-led Action Camps.

Both our local and statewide campaigns build on the victories of our decade-long fight to End the School to Jail Track and each have gained national recognition for improving student outcomes and achievement.

Standing at the vanguard of the nationwide movement to reform local school discipline policies, Padres & Jóvenes Unidos has demanded - and won - two crucial points of effective change in discipline practices: greater district accountability around policy implementation and a progressive, restorative discipline policy that is touted in districts across the country.

Over the past two years, Padres & Jóvenes Unidos has built on its proven track-record of local success to help Colorado become one of the few states to pass legislation that rolls back harsh, zero tolerance punishments that criminalize youth of color.

Join the campaign to End the School to Jail Track.  United, we can create school and district policies that promote school safety, academic success and help prepare all students for college and meaningful careers.

To learn more about our campaign to End the School to Jail Track, contact one of our organizers:

Lalo Montoya
lalo@padresunidos.org
(303) 458-6545

Monique Atkinson
monique@padresunidos.org
(303) 458-6545