Back to School, Part 1 by Speaking Freely With the ACLU-PA

Students around the commonwealth and the nation are headed back to school. With the focus on school security that never really ends but heightens after high profile tragedies, ACLU-PA Senior Policy Advocate Harold Jordan joins this episode to talk about how school officials are reacting after the shooting in Parkland, Florida, in February. Harold also offers insight into the research on how different students are disciplined differently - there's talk now of a Pre-School to Prison Pipeline - and discusses a new project that ACLU-PA is launching in Allegheny County.

Resources on students' civil rights are available at endzerotolerance.org.

This is part one of a two-part back to school special. In part two, we'll hear from Preston Heldibridle of the Pennsylvania Youth Congress, who talks about challenges for LGBTQ students.