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Join Annette Fuentes, investigative reporter and author of “Lockdown High: When the Schoolhouse Becomes a Jailhouse” for a talk and discussion.  After researching schools around the country, Fuentes concludes that the high tech, zero tolerance approach to school safety is not only unnecessary, but undermines the quality of education and causes many students to fail.  She explores alternatives where students are not treated as criminals and learn in safe environments.  

Annette Fuentes is a veteran journalist.  She worked for the NY Daily News and the Village Voice, wrote for The Nation and the New York Times, and taught news reporting and writing at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.  After moving to the Bay Area, she was an editor at two online publications, New America Media and the Bay Citizen, and is now an op ed contributor to USA Today.