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Mercedes Morgan, a senior at Ralph J. Bunche Academy, an Oakland, Calif., alternative school for students with disciplinary records, listens in as the school’s restorative justice coordinator, Eric Butler (r.), talks by phone with her mother. Ann Hermes/Staff
California’s Oakland Unified School District educators take part in restorative justice training. A federal review of possible civil rights violations in discipline resulted in the district’s landmark effort to reduce suspensions. Ann Hermes/Staff
Tiago Robinson greets students in the Oakland High School hall before his manhood-development class, which stresses firm handshakes and eye contact . Ann Hermes/Staff
Oakland (Calif.) School Police Officer H. Matthews urges eighth-graders late to class to enter campus.
Betsye Steele, principal of Ralph J. Bunche Academy, speaks to students at the alternative school’s restorative justice appreciation lunch. Ann Hermes/Staff
Indicating he’s done answering a question, Oakland High School student Jesse Baldain III passes a ball to the instructor in his manhood-development class. Ann Hermes/Staff
Armed Oakland School Police Officer H. Matthews (l.) watches Oakland High School students leaving campus at the end of a school day. Ann Hermes/Staff
Oakland is one of the nation’s most violent cities, and the school district’s disciplinary reforms aim to get high school students, like these walking along a painted school wall, out of the school-to-prison pipeline. Ann Hermes/Staff
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In one tough high school in Oakland, Calif., a restorative justice program has cut suspensions in half in just a year.
In the open-air corridor just outside his classroom, Eric Butler could hear snatches of escalating conflict: two girls talking trash about Mercedes Morgan – calling her the B-word and, even worse, a liar.
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