Deadline: 14 September 2009

ADVANCEMENT PROJECT’S
2009 SCHOOLHOUSE TO JAILHOUSE YOUTH ARTS COMPETITION

Calling all youth social justice advocates, organizers, activists, filmmakers, poets, and stars!
Have the schools in your community been pushing students out of school and into the juvenile and criminal justice systems through unfair or discriminatory use of suspensions, expulsions, and arrests? If so, here is your opportunity to speak out.
All across the country, schools are using the police and courts for discipline, pushing students, especially student of color, off of an academic track and onto a track to prison. This is called the Schoolhouse to Jailhouse Track, and if it affects you or your community, we want to hear about it.
Share your experience or the experiences of others with the rest of the country. Show how the Schoolhouse to Jailhouse track is operating in your city, your school district, your school, or your classroom. What do you witness? What frustrates you? What does your community think?
Entries will be evaluated by an esteemed panel of judges, including a sampling of social justice advocates and arts industry experts.

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