Media Coverage / Presentations

School discipline reform efforts – November 2020

Nonprofits address pandemic-era education struggles – September 23, 2020

Op-Ed on School Funding During COVID – July 2020

Coverage about a documentary about a SAC student – May 2020

Coverage about COVID-19 response – March 2020

WEMU Interview about SAC– February 2020

Concentrate Media’s Profile of SAC – February 2020

School discipline reform lagging – February 2020

Black History Month blog post – February 2020

WEMU Interview – July 2019

Legally Speaking – Expulsion in Schools – July 2019

Michigan schools have expelled fewer students, but that may not be cause for celebration – Chalkbeat – February 2019

Interview about our work                                                                          http://www.lance-erskine.com/audio/042318/palmquist

Michigan Schools Work to Reduce Suspensions  http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2017/11/16/michigan-schools-reduce-suspensions-expulsions/107730518/

Adults Recognize Trauma
http://www.secondwavemedia.com/concentrate/features/adults-recognize-trauma-102317.aspx

Rocki’s Reality Podcast: School to Prison Pipeline

 

Panel Discussion                                                                          http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2017/05/school_to_prison_pipeline.html

Ypsilanti Teen Overcomes                                                                                                       http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2017/05/ypsilanti_teen_overcomes_abuse.html

Radio Interview 

1320 WILS Interview with Mike Cohen, Dec. 22, 2016

Rethink Discipline Bills Off to the Governor http://www.freep.com/story/news/education/2016/12/13/school-zero-tolerance-michigan/95400570/

Press Release here.

 

Youth Action Michigan – Jackson encourages students to stay in school
http://www.mlive.com/news/jackson/index.ssf/2016/06/mcculloch_academy_students_enc.html

Radio interview (May 2016)

 

Mich. lawmakers take aim at school expulsions, suspensions (May 2016)  http://www.freep.com/story/news/education/2016/05/22/expulsions-school-michigan-lawmakers/84291958/

A Profile of One of Our Students (March 2016) https://medium.com/@ycschools_us/ycs-dynamic-student-daquann-harrison-4a403c39f8f8#.6fa4s4je6

Q&A: Student Advocacy Center of Michigan is working to raise graduation rates and education in state by Inspired Michigan (February 2016)  http://www.inspiredmichigan.com/features/2.16qa.aspx

Youths call attention to zero-tolerance policies by Detroit Free Press (June 2015) http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2015/06/10/zero-tolerance-policies-student-demonstration-capitol-lansing/71022240/