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As Discord Grows from Coast-to-Coast, Alumni of 800 Community Leadership Programs May Hold Solutions
February 18, 2021 GMT News Direct
At a time of seemingly insurmountable divisions, a new national organization has emerged to awaken a sleeping giant: the 700,000 graduates of local leadership programs trained to address societal problems collaboratively, civilly and positively.
The National Leadership Network looks to support and inspire these diverse local leaders to demonstrate the models of civic engagement, civil discourse and collaboration they learned in local leadership development programs in all regions of the country.
By Keith Johnson
As if the learning environment in the United States public school system weren’t already bad enough, the Obama administration has now made things much worse with new race-biased federal guidelines that will shield black and Latino students from disciplinary action for their disruptive and often violent behavior.
During a January 8 press conference, Attorney General Eric Holder blamed “zero-tolerance” classroom policies for creating a “school-to-prison pipeline,” where punishments are sometimes meted out via the criminal justice system rather than being handled internally.
“Ordinary troublemaking can sometimes provoke responses that are overly severe, including out of school suspensions, expulsions and even referral to law enforcement and then you end up with kids that end up in police precincts instead of the principal’s office,” Holder said.