Civil-rights group honors Denver nonprofit's work

The Denver Post October 30, 2009A national civil-rights group Thursday honored Denver's Padres y Jovenes Unidos, a nonprofit that works for equality and justice in education, racial justice for youths and immigrant rights.
The Washington, D.C.,-based Advancement Project, a civil-rights think tank, honored the Denver group at its 10th anniversary gala.
In 2008, Advancement Project and Padres y Jovenes Unidos achieved a major milestone when the Denver school board approved a new discipline code that both groups drafted.
Rewriting the discipline code was part of a six-year effort to end the schoolhouse-to-jailhouse track in Denver, which was pushing students — disproportionately black and Latino — out of the public school system and into the juvenile justice system.