Hearing Focuses on the Overuse of School Discipline and Juvenile Court Referrals
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–December 13, 2012. Assistant Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights, held a hearing yesterday on the school-to-prison pipeline. The first-ever Congressional hearing on the matter investigated the troubling increase in the number of young people sent to the juvenile delinquency system as a result of relatively minor school discipline…
