Nina Lavezzo-Stecopoulos and the co-editor of their high school newspaper, The Little Hawk, were talking to students in November about what they disliked about Iowa City High School when she sensed something was off. “That day I had a lot of good conversations about wrongful suspensions and racism” by the staff members who monitor the halls, Ms. Lavezzo-Stecopoulos said. She had also been learning about the justice system in her ethnic studies class, and, “seeing that this was an issue within my own school,” she said, “I decided to write about it.”Ms. Lavezzo-Stecopoulos got to work. She dug into state and school district statistics. She interviewed students about their rates of suspensions and experiences.

Source: New York Times June 07, 2020 21:27 UTC