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/