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Breaking the school-to-prison pipeline for young offenders one class at a time

Posted on Tuesday, July 5th, 2016 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Hari Sreenivasan, PBS
Date: June 29, 2016
Link: Complete Article

Since 2003, the Collaborative for Educational Services has been a partner to the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services (DYS) in creating access to high-quality education and employment opportunities for youth in the care and custody of DYS. The Collaborative is helping to equip an especially vulnerable population of young people with the tools they need see their world, and themselves, in a new light.

As reported by Hari Sreenivasan of PBS, “Just one third (of states) mandate that these kids meet the same standards as their public school counterparts. Massachusetts is one of them, and there the goal is to save these young offenders with vocational classes and good old reading, writing and arithmetic.”

See Sreenivasan’s PBS report highlighting the work at the MA Department of Youth Services to educate these young offenders here:

 

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Filed Under: CES Stories, State/National News Tagged With: Department of Youth Services, DYS Programs, DYS students, Hari Sreenivasan, PBS

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