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the wrong direction, said
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the U.S. Constitution.
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2012: 127
2013: 142
2014: 140
2015: 120
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draw from "
Gail Gitcho, a senior advi
sor with Marcy's Law for Al;,
said the group just wants t
educate voters and let then
decide. She said the vote t< >ta
in other states show resident
agree with the need for a con
stitutional amendment
"This is common
sense," she said. "And when
voters go to the ballot be
they think of course crirm
victims deserve victir.
rights and 'Why wouldn
billion- vote for this?"’
All indications are that
Nicholas and Marsy's Law for Lawyers, said his group,
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ethics documents show the launched a campaign last year
organization deployed nine to urge
lobbyists from two of the
state's more active political
tate affordable housing for ei- handed budget cub
ther rent or homeownership. !
Charlene Crowell is
communications deputy
director for the Center tor
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In 2014, Sharp proposed
a bill to protect school dis
tncts from civil lawsuits
led efforts to add constitu-
tional victim rights to Illinois
in 2014 and then South
Dakota, North Dakota and
all state constitutions that cur- Montana last year.
Nicholas made it his personal rently lack them and eventu-
mission to require that crime
victims receive notification of
similar decisions, among
Often, students facing bodily assaulting a teacher
suspension are the ones with
the most difficult issues at
home, such as food insecu-
rity Those problems are
likely to get worse i
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one
punishment is suspension
whether or not a teacher was
harmed, Perry said
in Guymon who placed her-
self between students in-
volved in a violent altercation
while she was pregnant, and
an Okmulgee teacher who
says she was |
face by a third-grader, result-
ing in a black eye and frac-
tured cheekbone.
Despite such incidents,
increasing the number of
young *
rhetoric than reality
Outrage must be sus-
tained, not just for predictable
as in l%s and
of a Badge Creek teacher, w ho
required surgery, and a teacher
in Western Heights school dis
trict who was "bit, kicked and
punched by 4-year-olds to the
point of bruises all over'
Sharp, who was elected in
2012, has regularly filed bills
focused on school discipline
poral punishment, or pad
dling, a form of discipline
I in most U.S states
The bill failed
The Senate approved SB
*1 on March 20 by a 38-'
such as counselors. students is not ideal and chil- vote; the bill is awaiting ac-
The law does provide dren are better served by al- tion by the House Common
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Thursday. April b.2017 • THE OKLAHOMA EAGLE • P~5
By Jennifer Palmer
Guest Contributor/ Oklahoma Watch
Students as young as
pre-K can be, and are, sus-
pended from Oklahoma
schools for as long as the re-
mainder of the school year
for violating school rules.
A proposal working its
way through the Legislature
would expand that by man-
dating lengthy suspensions
for elementary students as
young as third grade for as-
sault or attempted assault
against a teacher, school em-
ployee or volunteer. Cur-
rently, a default punishment
of suspension for the rest of
the semester and entire next
semester starts in sixth grade.
If Senate Bill bl by Sen.
Ron Sharp, R-Shawnee, is
passed, there will likely be
more elementary-aged stu-
dents kicked out of school
long-term In 2015, Oklahoma
schools reported % suspen-
sions of elementary-aged stu-
dents for assaulting a teacher
or staff member, state Educa-
tion Department data shows
Of those, only two students
were* suspended for the re-
mainder of the school year
Professional Oklahoma for Oklahoma Policy In-
stitute, an independent pol-
icy think tank.
We should be investing
what's needed in our schools
to actually control the class-
1 serv-
to these kids who are
CRIMINAL JUSTICE
The Billionaire Behind ‘Marsy’s Law’ Effort
• • _______________________________________________________________________________
By Tramp Bran .
Gum! Contributor
rean merchants and Black and
Latino residents, but ineffec-
tive political leadership, as
well as systemic/ institutional
neglect that caused conditions
to deteriorate without tar-
Some
killed in the things have changed since Larry Aubry e-mail
sources and expect to stimu-
late another $3.3 billion indi-
rectly to magnify their impact .
The HOME Investment tions, government can and
Partnerships program focuses should help. However, I be-
.wclusivelv on creating afford- lieve we need to ensure that
‘ ‘ > we provide families
is efficient and effective ”
By his own admission,
Secretary Carson has never
worked in government be-
local nonprofit organizations grams work well and should
to build, buy, and/or rehabili- be preserved from heavy-
tate affordable housing for ei- handed budget cuts
ther rent or homeownership. Since post-World War 11.
For the nation's 1.2 mil- FHA-backed mortgage loans
lion families who live in pub- have provided funding tor
ig will be replaced by nearly lie housing, the proposed
. . . . ’ will take
$1.3 million from facility im-
f /
Bill Would Require Long-Term Suspension Of
Elementary Students For Assaulting Teacher
Wl * L»n<» ciicnpnQinn hut he savs, schools options art
1992
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for the LAPP officers in the
"Rodney King trial was an-
nounced because he expected
a "slam dunk" guilty verdict.
"What it Rodney King, who
asked 'Why can t we < _
along?' had said,'Let's bum it
down ? Jeff felt there was a lot
of dialogue but no sustained
outrage in SCLA
Linda Jay, the final pan-
elist, is part of Mothers
Against Gang Violence -her geted intervention
daughter was I-----
cross-fire of a gang shooting
tion of Criminal Defense
, as
well as the South Dakota
of money in Oklahoma State State s Attorneys Association,
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» South Dakotans to
vote no on the proposal.
But he said it was impos-
consulting groups in the sible to counter the efforts by
state to push the legislation.
The Senate approved S|R 46
on a --------
House voted 88-0.
In other adopting states,
some officials have objected cate the public, but
to the outside influence.
Rvan Koibeck, president Koibeck said. "But
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The group successfully states his group has targeted of the South Dakota Associa- going up against
Educators, an association for
school personnel that re-
quested SB 81, collected testi-
monials from a dozen
unnamed teachers about their
experiences with physical vio- nK)m anj f0 provide the
lence in the classroom Those
include a fourth-grade teacher actjng in wavs that show they
in Guymon who placed her- are struggling," Perry said.
exclusively on creating afford-
able housing opportunities for the help
low-income families. Until
now, it has also been the sin-
gle largest block grant dedi-
cated to expanding this
housing sector. Formula ,
grants for states and local cabinet agency, he and his can be reached at
communities are often senior staff would be well- Char1ene.crowell@responsible
awarded in partnership with served by learning which pro-
There are good practices
and programs happening in
Oklahoma and elsewhere
________ _____ that do that, he said 1 he
punched in the ASSBUltS On TeaCherS Jenks Public Schools district,
A 4 Cl f°r eXdmP*e' opened tool-
ARO bl3n down rooms in two
The number of reported largest elementary schools
assaults on teachers and this year, where students
staff bi/ elementary students struggling to cope can go to
students suspended in Oklahoma schools rose in R™------------
mixed-use housing units
part of an
For every $1 in Choice
Neighborhix>ds I
awardees and their partners
typically leverage for their
projects an additional $5 in
She described her insight on
the 1Q92 riots as "deep" and still overshadow the many
said what happened to Rod- positive efforts for positive
ney King motivated people to change, especially in South
take action. She stressed the Central Los Angeles where
need to stick together and said basic change remain" more
racial profiling is still a major
f actor in the Black community
The 1992 so-cailed riots
wire not only the result long uprisings such
all get built-up tension between Ko- 1992, hut for on-going oppres-
sion and in|ustice, esfx'dally
in the Black communitv <3nly
sustamaole pressure will
change the behas ior of politi-
cians and put people, not pol-
itics, first
Marsy's Law is almost
entirely the brainchild of
Henry T. Nicholas, the bil-
lionaire founder of Broad-
com, a company that makes
semiconductors for the com-
munications industry.
Nicholas first entered the
field of victims’ rights when
he led the effort to pass
Proposition 8, a form of
Marsy's Law, in his home
state of California in 2008.
California campaign records
show that Nicholas person-
ally spent $4.9 million of the
$5.1 million raised in support
of the measure. The opposi-
tion spent $2.3 million.
For Nicholas, this was
personal issue
His sister, Marsalee
(Marsy) Nicholas, was shot
and killed by her ex-
boyfriend in 1983. Days after
the murder, the accused
killer, who would later be
convicted of second-degree
murder, was out on bail and
confronted Nicholas and his other rights he's promoting,
mother at a grocery store. In 2(X)9, he founded
At that time, the family Marsy's Law for Al), whose
wasn't even aware the ac- goal is to add victims' rights to
cused had been released, ----------------------
Marsy's Law for All, which
included events and adver-
43-2 vote, and the tisements featuring "Fraiser"
star Kelsey Grammer
"We did our best to edu-
we had a
Facebook page and $5,000,"
we are
a
3,700 new, mixed-income, budget blueprint
millions of Americans With
down payments as low as 3 5
percent, families who cannot
provements, and another $600 afford a large down payment
million in ooerational costs. for a conventional loan, can
make that important transi-
tion from renter to home
owner. In recent years
> are the
most used by Black and
Latino consumers.
HUD's history of sen ice
has manv more examples of
how modest public invest-
peal a long suspension, but he says, schools options
problem is the default limited right now
"We cannot have that
child with anger manage-
ment issues in the classroom
r or
a teacher's aide. We have to
do something to address
this,” he said.
Other incidents reported
if the stu- by Professional Oklahoma Ed-
dent is remqyed from school, ucators were a special-educa-
Perry said. Another major tion student kicking the knee |
issue with school suspensions '' L ‘ .....
| is thev are given dispropor-
tionately to students of color.
| Oklahoma City Public Schools
is under federal oversight re-
Xl lated to racial dispanties in its
m student discipline. An audit
M by the school district, the
j j state's largest, found black
J students are two to three times In 2016, a bill to allow schools
I more likely to be suspended to implement "reverse ‘•u*-
| than white students pension" was signal int.
Suspensions also can have giving school districts the op-
ipple effects. A 2014 study of tion to have a student perform
’ i "campus site service" in ex
found that in schools with high change for suspension,
suspension rates, there was a
negative effect on the math and
reading scores of students who
hadn't been suspended Fre- arising from their use of cor
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2011 and 2014 but dropped side of the classroom. quent suspensions impact a ]
Unfortunately, funding school's culture, one of the re-
for alternative education has searchers theorized, causing banned
been reduced and some anxiety and disconnect among
school districts have elinii- students. Sharp, a retired edu-
nated support staff positions, cator, agrees that suspending 81
are better served by al-
parents an opportunity to ap- ternatives to suspension But,
as
overall effort to re-
vitalize neighborhoods million in operational costs.
” ’ • These and other severe
funding, funding cuts pmposed are the
Carson testified to during his FHA-backed loans
confirmation hearings. On
public and private funding. January 12, before the Senate s
Together, the five cities are ex- Banking, Housing and Urban
ixx tcil to leverage $636 million Affairs L omnuttee, he said,
through other public/pnvate "[I]t's difficult for a child to
h |earn at school it he or she ments have and can continue
doesn't have an adequate to leverage larger private
place to live. In these situa-
tions, government can J
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