Posts related to the report’s section Our Students Deserve Freedom from Judicial Inequities:
Mike Brown’s life had become an equation; a sum of his respectable parts minus any mainstream missteps to determine his right to equality. Four and a half hours left in the street gave view to an enduring truth in America… 
A Just Chicago reports on the educational damage suffered by children whose parents are incarcerated. It discusses the disproportionately high suspension rates of Black students, and the "school to prison pipeline". A more gruesome aspect of the racist injustice system is the murder of children, particularly Black children, at the hands of the police and the courts. 
On June 5, the mayor announced a STEM pilot program at Phoenix Military Academy. CPS already created a STEM program at Rickover Naval Academy in 2013. It is not a coincidence that STEM is being promoted in military schools… 
Chicagoans desperate for mental health services are deliberately committing petty crimes and getting arrested because the only place they can get the medication they need is in jail! That is the sad state of affairs for mental health in Chicago,… 
The sight of young Black men, spread-eagled with hands on the police car, is an all too familiar one in Chicago. That’s because “stop and frisk,” usually for no lawful reason, is disproportionately concentrated in the Black community. A March 2015 American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) report found that more than 250,000 Chicagoans were stopped, but not arrested, in the summer of 2014. 