"My first act as a school board member was to push a student out of his school. That’s not what I expected to do."
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Jane Kim, a former community organizer who had pledged to fight social inequalities as a member of the Board of Education. She later helped lead a three-year process for the San Francisco Board of Ed. to officially adopt restorative justice.
“Reaching for Restorative Justice Programs in Public Schools,” by Jeremy Adam Smith, from San Francisco Public Press
Reprinted in Utne Reader, September/October 2012
