Efforts to address the school-to-prison pipeline, which disproportionately affects lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth of color, requires greater collaboration between the racial justice and LGBTQ movements, a report from the Movement Advancement Project, the Equality Federation Institute, and the Gay Straight Alliance Network argues. According to the report, Power in Partnerships: Building Connections at the Intersections of Racial Justice and LGBTQ Movements to End the School-to-Prison Pipeline (35 pages, PDF), underinvestment in public schools, implicit and explicit bias, prison-like school environments, and the overuse of suspension, expulsion, and school arrests criminalize youth for minor offenses and put them on a pathway to prison. The report also finds that students of color and LGBTQ youth tend to receive harsher punishments for the same behavior compared to their white and/or non-LGBTQ peers. In addition to the voices of young people urging more collaboration across issue areas, the report includes examples of successful partnerships and best practices such as bringing youth- and adult-led groups together, defining expectations, and building stronger relationships by making an effort to learn about other organizations and their issues.