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📣SNS Advocacy Day is Tuesday, May 13th Join us for a rally, meetings with legislators, and connections with activists and art-ivists! 📅 Register by May 5th to reserve your seat 📲Sign up at thechildrensagenda.org/events/sns-adv… Solutions Not Suspensions #SolutionsNotSuspensions

🗣️ Today, 200+ parents, students & advocates are in Albany calling on NY lawmakers to pass the #SNSBill #SolutionsNotSuspensionsNY bill (A.118/S.134). Our students deserve solutions and support, not punishment. #PassA118S134 #EndSchoolPushout

We had over 200 parents, students, advocates in Albany calling on Albany to pass #SolutionsNotSuspensions! We are so grateful to our community for showing up and for our sponsors support! 🔊📢📣

WE NEED SOLUTIONS NOT SUSPENSIONS! Take Action here to pass this bill: cccnewyork.org/campaigns/new-…

Add your name to the movement today: thechildrensagenda.org/sns Urge our lawmakers to pass The Judith Kaye Solutions not Suspensions Act (A118/S134) this year! Teen Empowerment Solutions Not Suspensions #SNSBill #SolutionsNotSuspensionsNY #RestorativePractices

Caucus Members took part in a rally at the Million Dollar Staircase earlier this week for 'Solution Not Suspension' (Bill A118/ S134), a bill that would reform the harsh usage of school suspensions by establishing restorative & equitable alternatives. #agencyandaction

“To my colleagues, the time to act is now… let us dismantle the pipeline from school desks to jail cells, and let us build a future where every child has the opportunity to rise up, to be seen, and to belong.” Robert Jackson

“Black and Brown students for far too long have disproportionally been subject to school suspensions compared to their counterparts. Suspensions are not effective for anything except for the removal of students from adequate learning environments.” Latrice Walker

“We are here today because our children deserve classrooms, not suspensions. In the Bronx, and across this state, kids are being suspended for being kids. And let’s be clear, when a child is suspended, that’s not discipline. That’s a denial of education.” Yudelka Tapia

“We also have to recognize that one of the key reasons why suspensions don’t work is that it is so disparate in the application that it hurts Black and Brown students more than anyone else by far.” John C. Liu

“It is always the right time to do what is right, and Solutions not Suspensions is the right thing to do. I know it is the right thing to do because I worked in community schools for over 10 years… As a social worker, I often found myself defending students.” Assemblyman Manny De Los Santos, MSW

“I am a proud co-sponsor of this bill because it is the right thing to do and because I am a former teacher. I know suspensions don’t teach anybody anything. But I know investing in our students works.” Jabari Brisport

Thank you Robert Jackson ! #PassSolutionsNotSuspensions

Thank you Latrice Walker ! #PassSolutionsNotSuspensions

Thank you Yudelka Tapia! #PassSolutionsNotSuspensions

Thank you John C. Liu! #PassSolutionsNotSuspensions

Thank you Assemblyman Manny De Los Santos, MSW! #PassSolutionsNotSuspensions

Thank you Jabari Brisport! #PassSolutionsNotSuspensions

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