Student Rights

D.C. Council Presses Officials for Action on ACLU Data Showing High Rate of Suspensions at D.C. Charter Schools

February 15, 2012

The D.C. Council recently grilled officials and asked for action in reponse to dramatic testimony to the D.C. Council Committee of the Whole on February 8, when ACLU Senior Staff Attorney Fritz Mulhauser revealed new ACLU findings -- that public charter schools in the District in 2009-2010 (the latest year for which there is adequate data) suspended 4,500 of their 29,000 students--16 per cent of the enrollment.

ACLU Warns D.C. Public Schools of Improper Discipline Proposed at Wilson High School

November 04, 2011

The ACLU jhas alerted officials in D.C. Public Schools that Wilson High School Principal Petet Cahall recently proposed improper discipline, that should not be carried out by his superiors.  Cahall, in a letter home to parents after students damaged a bathroom in the newly-remodeled building, called for exopulsion and criminal charges against those involved and also