Hillary Clinton Proposes $2 Billion Plan to End ‘School-to-Prison Pipeline'

[Eugene]

Source: ABC News

Hillary Clinton Proposes $2 Billion Plan to End ‘School-to-Prison Pipeline'

By LIZ KREUTZ SHUSHANNAH WALSHE
NEW YORK CITY — Feb 16, 2016, 3:05 PM ET

Hillary Clinton is set to propose a $2 billion plan to reform public schools in low income areas and end the so-called “school-to-prison pipeline," according to an aide.

Clinton is expected to announce the proposal during a speech on race this afternoon at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem. She will call for an end to zero-tolerance discipline policies in schools, which she says disproportionately affects African American children and has helped lead to the country’s mass incarceration problem.

Clinton’s plan is part of her new "Breaking Down Barriers” agenda, which includes an investment of $20 billion to create youth jobs, $5 billion in reentry programs for formerly incarcerated people and $25 billion to help entrepreneurship and small business growth in low-income communities.

Her remarks today come just hours after a meeting with Rev. Al Sharpton and other prominent civil rights leaders at the National Urban League in downtown Manhattan.

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[HerbChestnut]

1. BUT HOW WILL SHE PAY FOR IT????

In all seriousness, this sounds like a good program. However, it's a tad ironic that the article ends with her calling Bernie a single issue candidate when her plan is essentially an economic one.

[grasswire]

3. Her plan is pander.

Free things for PoC.

Isn't that it?

[grasswire]

2. In what way do the Clintons profit from this plan?

Considering the fact that she wants to reverse the effects of her husband's policies of the not so distant past, there must be something in it for them again.

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. I do wonder how she can accomplish this without suffering a financial loss from it.

[RobertEarl]

4. At least she's trying

A little late, but there is is.

[fleur-de-lisa]

5. $2 Billion? With a 'B'?

We can't afford this pie-in-the-sky madness!

How will she pay for it?

[jillan]

7. How is she going to get it passed thru Congress? They will never vote for this.

[Roy Ellefson]

8. more free stuff

more free stuff

[Nanjeanne]

9. That's Great. Looking for the details on this. You know like how it will be paid for? Anyone?????

[beedle]

10. So the pipeline remains ..

... just put a ribbon around the results as they exit the back-end of the system?

Jobs are nice, but when they take you from "school to prison", thinking the 'job' part is going to stop the 'prison industrial complex' from putting kids in prison for profits seems like a bit of "magical thinking'.

Jobs are great ... Where's the part where the 'pipeline' is dismantled?