For the past five years, Advancement Project-- a national policy, communications, and legal action organization that develops, encourages, pioneers, and widely disseminates innovative ideas and models that inspire and mobilize a broad national racial justice movement to achieve universal opportunity and a just democracy-- has focused on the use and devastating effects of zero tolerance disciplinary policies in public schools.
Advancement Project has continued to develop its expertise on this issue by publishing articles in magazines and journals and working with community organizations to curb this onslaught. Because of our on-the-ground work on zero tolerance, we recognized that zero tolerance is at the intersection of education and juvenile justice concerns. As we worked with communities we recognized a national pattern -- students were not only being pushed out of school because of zero tolerance policies but they were simultaneously being pushed into the juvenile justice system.
 Education on Lockdown: The Schoolhouse to Jailhouse Track is Advancement Project's second report examining the emergence of zero tolerance school discipline policies and the evolution of schools using police as disciplinarians. To view a copy of the report and learn more about Advancement Project visit
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