The Chapter 222 Coalition, an alliance of educational advocates and attorneys and Citizens for Juvenile Justice (CfJJ), a non-profit statewide advocacy organization, are concerned that schools may be excluding and disciplining students, particularly students of color and students with disabilities, during the pandemic.
We are also concerned about schools filing 51A “child neglect” reports with the Department of Children and Families (DCF), and Child Requiring Assistance (CRA) truancy cases in juvenile court, if children are not able to access online school.
If these things happen, we want to hear about them so that we can seek systemic and policy change where it is needed. Information from this survey will be used to create a public report and data that will be shared with state legislators and the advocacy community.
You can find an English version of the survey here and a Spanish version here. Chapter 222 will be accepting survey responses until May 31, 2021.
Please provide as much information as you can about any incidents that may have occurred during this school year during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. This survey will take approximately fifteen minutes to complete.
