“Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy, and sustainable human development.” – Kofi Annan

Our 2017 National Week of Action Demands

DSC members and allies call on the federal government, states, districts, and schools to:

• Shift funding from school police to counselors, peace builders, and positive discipline.
• Fund and use transformative and restorative justice, mediation, and positive interventions.
• Stop arresting and pushing out students of color, LGBTQ youth, students that are homeless,
  and students with disabilities at higher rates. *Black students are pushed out at the highest
  rates nationally.)
• Make sure states and districts focus on school climate under the new federal law —
  the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
• End paddling and physical punishment in all schools.
• Invest in public education, not privatization and charter schools.