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Bryan ISD’s Ticketing Practice Violates Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and its Implementing Regulations (Complaint Summary) February 20, 2013
Texas Appleseed and the Brazos County chapter of the NAACP filed a Complaint with the Office of Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education, challenging the disproportionate Class C misdemeanor ticketing of African American students in Bryan ISD for Disorderly Conduct-Language and Disruption of Class -- minor misbehavior that used to be handled by a trip to the principal's office.
Bryan ISD’s Ticketing Practice Violates Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and its Implementing Regulations (Complaint) February 20, 2013
Texas Appleseed and the Brazos County chapter of the NAACP filed a Complaint with the Office of Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education, challenging the disproportionate Class C misdemeanor ticketing of African-American students in Bryan ISD for Disorderly Conduct-Language and Disruption of Class -- minor misbehavior that used to be handled by a trip to the principal's office.
Written Testimony of Texas Appleseed, Hearing: "Ending the School to Prison Pipeline" December 12, 2012
Submitted in writing for the nation's first Congressional hearing on the school-to-prison pipeline (U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights)
Wallace B. Jefferson State of the Judiciary: Presented to the 82nd Legislative Session February 23, 2011
In the State of the Judiciary Address to the 82nd Legislature, Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court Wallace Jefferson emphasizes that criminalization of minor misbehavior can exacerbate our school dropout problems. His address cites Texas Appleseed's school-to-prison pipeline research.
Fact Sheet: School-to-Prison Pipeline in Texas October 2013

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