“Across Texas, students walk into school every day surrounded by surveillance, police presence, and harsh disciplinary policies. For Black and brown students, the same violent policing that characterizes life in overpoliced communities infiltrates their schools and pollutes their educational experience.” — Travis Fife, CI fellow. Thousands of Black and brown kids are criminalized, punished and pushed out of school each year for ordinary adolescent misbehavior. Black girls are more than three times more likely to be incarcerated than their white peers. We cannot break down the multitude of injustices that target Black and brown people without addressing policing in all its forms. Travis talks all about his experience in education and why he wants to dismantle policing in schools.
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