Centering Black Girls in School Safety

School hardening policies—such as the presence of police and security, metal detectors, and harsh discipline codes—contribute to a criminalization culture in schools and students being pushed out of classrooms and into the school-to-prison pipeline. For Black girls, this criminalization culture causes serious additional harms. The new case study and report, Keep Her Safe by the National Women’s Law Center and the Southern Poverty Law Center with Black girls in Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS)—demonstrates how critical insights can come from centering Black girls in the school safety conversation. We offer this report and our resources to help you learn more, advocate for change and foster inclusive learning spaces that benefit all children.