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Attorney M. Alex Evans is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he studies Social and Cultural Studies in Education Policy under his advisor, Dr. Adrienne Dixson. He is a graduate of North Carolina Central University School of Law in Durham, North Carolina, where he also obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in Music/Ethnomusicology. His research interests are School Discipline, Policing in Communities of Color, Juvenile Law, Constitutional Law, Critical Race Theory, & Global Music of the African Diaspora.
Supervisors: Dr. Adrienne Dixson
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While there is a large amount of scholarship discussing the discipline and policing policies that... more While there is a large amount of scholarship discussing the discipline and policing policies that aggravate the school-to-prison pipeline, this article specifically uses WCPSS as a model to highlight the challenges that many school districts face nationwide. This article not only evaluates conventional methods to extinguish the school-to-prison pipeline that have been widely introduced, but it also tenders non-conventional methods such as goodwill, as an effort to cure the community from the harms suffered by the pipeline's powerless targets. This paper examines America's racially discriminatory criminal justice system and climate of law enforcement in America, while exploring the correlations of this inequitable climate with schools. Additionally, it summarizes extensive data on the school-to-prison-pipeline and analyzes WCPSS' security and policing policies, by incorporating narratives of instances in which students-of-color suffered injuries under WCPSS' unjust student discipline and policing practices. Also, this paper explores multiple programs that have proven to be successful in improving school discipline and policing policies to extinguish the school-to-prison pipeline. Finally, it concludes by proposing solutions for WCPSS and surrounding areas which will ideally serve as a standard of development for school districts nationwide that have encountered similar challenges within their respective school-to-prison pipelines.
While there is a large amount of scholarship discussing the discipline and policing policies that... more While there is a large amount of scholarship discussing the discipline and policing policies that aggravate the school-to-prison pipeline, this article specifically uses WCPSS as a model to highlight the challenges that many school districts face nationwide. This article not only evaluates conventional methods to extinguish the school-to-prison pipeline that have been widely introduced, but it also tenders non-conventional methods such as goodwill, as an effort to cure the community from the harms suffered by the pipeline's powerless targets. This paper examines America's racially discriminatory criminal justice system and climate of law enforcement in America, while exploring the correlations of this inequitable climate with schools. Additionally, it summarizes extensive data on the school-to-prison-pipeline and analyzes WCPSS' security and policing policies, by incorporating narratives of instances in which students-of-color suffered injuries under WCPSS' unjust student discipline and policing practices. Also, this paper explores multiple programs that have proven to be successful in improving school discipline and policing policies to extinguish the school-to-prison pipeline. Finally, it concludes by proposing solutions for WCPSS and surrounding areas which will ideally serve as a standard of development for school districts nationwide that have encountered similar challenges within their respective school-to-prison pipelines.