Download CRP's report Opportunities Suspended: the Devastating Consequences of Zero Tolerance and School Discipline Policies, about the impact of such policies on children with special needs.

School Discipline Tools

There has been a gratifyingly responsive audience for CRP's work. With the opportunity this affords, however, comes a certain responsibility to work harder to provide support to several sectors.

Action Kits & Handbooks

• A Zero Tolerance and School Discipline Action Kit, providing basic information for understanding, detecting, and fighting discriminatory attitudes and actions in your school's policies and practices.
  
• "Know Justice" Handbook, published by the Center for Young Women's Development, provides explanations of legal terminology, information about juvenile justice processes, and other resources for youth involved in the system and their families.

Advocacy Organizations and Contacts

• U. S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights
  For information on students' civil rights, contact the office serving your state or territory.

Research

Zero Tolerance: Resisting the Drive for Punishment in Our Schools

Edited by William Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, and Rick Ayers.

The New Press, Copyright © 2001.
ISBN 1-56584-666-4, $17,95 cloth

Includes a chapter by Dan Losen and Christopher Edley, Jr. called: "The Role of Law in Policing Abusive Disciplinary Practices: Why School Discipline Is a Civil Rights Issue."

Policy Advocacy

Civil Rights in Brief: Zero Tolerance and School Discipline. A brief summary and basic concerns on this issue.