Chicago students in many of the city’s public schools are being pushed out. “We really need to stop thinking about school dropout, and start thinking about school push out,” said Elena Quintana, executive director of the Institute on Public Safety and Social Justice. “When we kick people out, we basically leave them with very few […]
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It costs Illinois $111,000 a year to imprison one young person yet, there is no training and rehabilitation programs to keep them from returning to prison, advocates said Thursday. “Why are the same communities sending people to prison for the last 50 years?” said Anthony Lowery, director of policy and advocacy of Safer Foundation. “Young […]
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