New microschool to serve justice

Wendy Loloff Cooper knows all too well the systematic hurdles that juveniles face upon returning to school from the criminal justice system.

Between her son’s freshman and sophomore years of high school, he was charged with four felonies and struggled to find a school that would accept him that fall.

While he ultimately found a school and recovered from his setbacks, Loloff Cooper recognized the staggering number of families with similar circumstances but without the institutional knowledge and resources from which she benefited.

“I know how the system works, I speak the language and, with the justice system being proportionately weighted towards people of color and people in poverty, I started thinking about, ‘What are all these other parents supposed to do?’” she said.

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