Resolution seeks to improve school discipline with human rights framework

America's current disciplinary rates in public schools are the highest in the nation's history - they've doubled over the past three decades. And these policies tend to affect certain students the most: youth of color, students with disabilities and students in poor communities. Those findings are part of a new resolution from the Dignity in Schools campaign. It calls for a new direction in education - one that uses a human rights approach to education and discipline.

We're joined by Liz Sullivan. She's the education program director with the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative, a national human rights organization based in New York and one of the drafters of the resolution. The group plans to use it in the coming months to push for policy changes in the schools and on Capitol Hill.