School-to-Prison Pipeline Reform Institute -
June 2 in New Orleans

The TASC Annual Conference in New Orleans, June 2 - 5, 2008, includes:

School-to-Prison Pipeline (STPP) Reform Institute
Monday, June 2, 2008 (8:30 am - 5:00 pm)

It is jam packed with information about various strategies that advocates
can use to push back on the pipeline. Attached is a draft of the Agenda with
the topics and presenters, and information about the presenters.

Institute Description
Participants will learn about the School-to-Prison-Pipeline (STPP) that
contributes to the disproportionate number of children and youth with
disabilities coming into contact with juvenile and criminal justice systems.
Contributing factors to this problem and a variety of advocacy strategies to
address it will be discussed, including leveraging special education rights
via group administrative complaints, systemic litigation, push-back
strategies in juvenile courts, legislative advocacy, and other approaches.
Throughout the day participants will engage in activities focused on
drafting an Action Plan specific to their jurisdictions for engaging in
targeted initiatives to combat the STPP problem. Participants should possess
basic knowledge of special education and related rights of children with
disabilities (e.g, have completed the TASC IDEA 101 webcast series available
at http://www.ndrn.org/TASC/issues/edu/Default.htm).

More information and the registration form for the Conference are available
online:
http://www.ndrn.org/Meetings/default.htm