The School-To-Prison Pipeline Is Overflowing in Waterbury…Despite accounting for just 3.5% of the state’s student population Waterbury students accounted for 18% of all school-based arrests in the state of Connecticut.
Current Issues
R.A.C.C.E’s latest work in the community.
RACCE’s Team is Growing: Ala Nzambi Ochumare Joins RACCE as Our ABAR Organizer
RACCE’s Team is Growing: Ala Nzambi Ochumare Joins RACCE as Our ABAR Organizer
Alliance District Funding Usage, Lack of Race-Matched Classrooms, and the School-to-Prison Pipeline Continue to Produce Racist Outcomes…
Alliance District Funding Usage, Lack of Race-Matched Classrooms, and the School-to-Prison Pipeline Continue to Produce Racist Outcomes…Join us this Tuesday February 4, 2020 at 6:30 pm
Is Teacher Diversity a Real Objective When Zero Black Male Teachers Are Hired?
In Waterbury, hand-selected political gatekeepers or accomplices of the system are chosen to rubberstamp the policies or programs that have been put in place to challenge the racial inequity that is so pervasive in the Waterbury schools. Their actions have preserved the White Supremacist structures that speed up the school-to-prison pipeline, exasperate achievement and performance gaps between Black and Latinx students and their white peers, and continue to oppress or directly repress opportunities to access liberatory educational experiences.
Year After Year, Plan After Plan: Racial Gaps Grow for Waterbury’s Black and Hispanic Students…
The Board of Education has done a poor job as the oversight body of our education system. Too many have been on the board for too long and have long resisted the public’s urging to take bold measures on a host of issues.
Board of Education Stalls on Making Superintendent’s Evaluation Responsive to School and Community Needs.
“I think what I’m hearing is we need to bring the constituency in, in setting the goals up front…” ~Board President Elizabeth C. Brown (D), 8 years on the Board of Education “I’m not pleased with it. I look forward… Read More ›
Community Forum Series Yields Powerful Experiences and Troubling Revelations
On April 30, 2019, RACCE convened its last of four community forums by hosting a student round table. Students ranged from 4th grade to 11th grade. Students discussed their concerns on school climate, school-based arrests and school resource officers, and the overuse of school suspensions by the Waterbury Public Schools.
RACCE Hosts Waterbury Student Round Table-April 30, 2019: Join US!
Join us on Tuesday night to listen to Waterbury public school students discussing the state of our schools from their perspective. The round table will be guided by RACCE staff. Parents, community members and members of the press are invited to attend. A private strategic advocacy session will take place from 8:15 to 8:45 pm. See you there!
Sign the Petition: #StepDownTVS Waterbury Board of Education Commissioner Exhibits a Large Degree of Racial Insensitivity…”
Waterbury Board of Education Commissioner Tom Van Stone’s recommendation to eliminate two of ten annual federal holidays for our schools because students have chosen to sit during the Pledge of Allegiance exhibited a large degree of racial insensitivity and complete
disregard for students’ rights protected under the Constitution.
Waterbury and the School-to-Prison Pipeline: We Demand Police Free Schools
The school-to-prison pipeline is not just a school-based issue. When the data is hidden from the public and the applied solutions don’t work the school-to-prison pipeline becomes a public safety issue as well as a public health issue. School-based arrests disrupt learning, damage student-teacher relationships beyond repair, and cause trauma that permanently harms students and bystanders.