ACLU helps ready teens for school

AUSTIN (KXAN) - Civil Liberties Activists are getting ready for "back to school"

Saturday's Texas ACLU conference the topic was "sensible school discipline".

Their concern is what they call a "school to prison pipeline" where kids who have trouble adjusting in school get sent to the streets and end up as criminals.

They say "zero-tolerance" policies at many schools take kids out of an environment where they can get support, and leave them on their own.

The conference was headlined by TV Producer Ed Burns, who portrayed problems with school systems in his critically-acclaimed HBO Series "The Wire."