Youth Today
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5.3KNew Mexico’s first Native family court points to success keeping kids in tribal communities
New Mexico’s first Native family court, based in Albuquerque, is dedicated to hearing child welfare cases that fall under the Indian Child...
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1.2KNew Mexico lawmakers, citing political frustrations, pull juvenile justice reform bill
Proposed reforms to New Mexico’s juvenile sentencing rules failed to become law for a second year in a row after the bill’s...
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1.2KNational Guard deploys for new emergency: Teacher shortages
While many other states and school districts issued pleas for substitute teachers amid omicron-driven surges in infections, New Mexico has been alone...
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5.1KLawmakers, federal investigators target teen facilities billed as therapeutic but accused of abuse
Separate investigations by the federal Government Accountability Office and Department of Health and Human Services' inspector general that were launched in 2021,...
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870From campus to Congress, colleges urged to end legacy boost
America's elite colleges are facing growing calls to end the decades-old tradition of giving an admissions boost to the children of alumni...
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1.1KAmid push for free calls from lock-up, Connecticut’s statewide mandate will be the nation’s first
Pressured by Worth Rises and similar advocacy groups, the Federal Communication Commission last year imposed ceilings on the costs of interstate calls...
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1.2KSandy Hook families settle for $73M with gun maker Remington
The families of nine victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting have agreed to a $73 million settlement of a lawsuit...
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1.1KProtesters press Biden over gun violence promises on Parkland shooting anniversary
Four years after 17 students and others were gunned down at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, families and gun control...
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2.7KA struggling Mississippi school district leans on afterschool programming
When the pandemic hit Jackson, Mississippi, the ongoing challenge to keep teenagers in high school got even harder. As the economic impacts...
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1.9KYoung workers give unions new hope
After decades of decline, U.S. unions have a new reason for hope: younger workers. Workers in their 20s, and even in their...
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1.5KProspects for children in 2022: A global outlook
UNICEF takes a look at the year ahead and the key trends impacting children as the world attempts to recover from the...
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1.8KMelanie Willingham-Jaggers named executive director of GLSEN
Melanie Willingham-Jaggers is the first person of color, first nonbinary person, and first Black woman to lead GLSEN in its 32-year history.
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5.2KQ&A: UPenn Prof. Dorothy Roberts makes the case for abolishing the child welfare system
For Dorothy Roberts, a scholar of race and gender at the University of Pennsylvania law school, there is nothing well-meaning or compassionate...
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1.3KAnalysis: A fraction of Houston area’s justice-involved youth accounted for the bulk of repeat-offenders
The analysis included 42,000 youth who were aged 12 through 16 at the time of that first contact with the system in...
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2.7KUpended by COVID-19, some nonprofits went online, on the road and otherwise innovated to aid homeless youth
As COVID-19 upended their usual protocols, some nonprofits that didn’t manage to alter their outreach strategies saw the tally of homeless youth...
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3.2KDisabilities sometimes go undiagnosed in homeless students targeted by new federal education funds, experts say
The $800 million that the American Rescue Plan earmarked for homeless students is the largest such federal expenditure in a decade, with...
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978Justice Department won’t reopen probe into Tamir Rice death
The Justice Department has said it will not reopen the federal investigation into the 2014 death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was...
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1.5KGun suicides felled some veterans; others found a way forward
Daily, an average of 17 U.S. veterans has resorted to suicide, taking their lives at a 52.3% greater rate than other Americans...
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1.3KSuicide increase for women — the fastest growing group of veterans — outpaced men’s
As suicide rates for women veterans have increased, proportionately, more than male rates, an increasing number of those deaths involved firearms, according...
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1.5KOklahoma basketball team launches afterschool program to teach data, analytics to Black youth
The students, known as Thunder Fellows, are part of the inaugural class of an afterschool program founded in the wake of the...
