Schools 2 Prisons Podcast Series – Episode 1

OAG & the League of Education Voters present:

The Opportunity Gap & the School to Prison Pipeline

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You can also download the full transcript here: Schools 2 Prisons 1 The Opportunity Gap (PDF)

 Summary:

In this first podcast of the three-part series, we’ll introduce you to the issue of Washington’s opportunity gap. We’ve been working together, researching and interviewing for several months now, trying to answer some questions that are at the heart of this issue.

What is the Opportunity Gap? What is the school to prison pipeline? What causes these phenomena?

In short, the opportunity gap is the gap in academic performance between white students and students of color, and also between wealthy students and poor students. The school to prison pipeline is the trend of school’s pushing their “bad kids” out — and into the juvenile justice system.

Check out episode 2: the Cost of Inequity.

Click to check out episode 3: from Pupil to Prisoner

Props to all the OAGeniuses who researched for this project:

Research Leader: Maggie Wilkens

Kendra Ijeoma

Bailee Martin

Scott Davis

Cody Lestelle

Kirk Bigger

Also, Chance Random for equalizing, scoring, and making this podcast beautiful!

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