Scott Roberts
Campaign Coordinator |
Advancement Project
Scott Roberts is the Campaign Coordinator for Advancement Project’s Ending the School-to-Prison Pipeline program. In this role he works directly with local community organizations and activists to provide support, training, and strategic advice in their efforts to address harmful and discriminatory school discipline policies and practices.
Presentations from Facing Race 2012
Dismantling the School to Prison Pipeline
This workshop is intended to assist participants in addressing educational pushout and the criminalization of K-12 students in their respective communities. We will with a brief overview of the relevant issues, their causes, and their impact followed by case studies of resistance, involving an interactive discussion around actual examples of local and state organizing campaigns, and the lessons learned from them. Finally, participants will work in small groups to develop policy agendas and strategies for addressing the issue in their communities.
Speakers: Tekoah Flory, Laura Lemus, Scott Roberts