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Forum Addresses Youth Violence

Representatives of six cities met in Washington earlier this month, at the National Forum on Youth Violence Prevention, to discuss their common...

Value of Drug Courts Called into Question by Two Reports

Criminal drug courts, a 22-year-old strategy to keep low-level drug offenders out of the justice system, are not as effective as they...

Primer on New Child Nutrition Act

The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, signed by President Barack Obama in mid-December, will boost the availability and health content of...

GM Gives $27.1 Million for Detroit Schools

The struggling Detroit city school system is about to receive a major boost from the formerly bankrupt, now profitable General Motors automakers....

More Teens Smoke Marijuana than Cigarettes

For the second year in a row, more teens reported using marijuana in the past 30 days than the number that reported...

GAO Revises Report on For-Profit Schools

The Government Accountability Office has taken the unusual step of revising parts of its report on for-profit schools’ recruiting practices, lessening the...

Monitor Levels Sharp Criticism at Michigan Child Welfare System

The independent court monitor in Michigan’s child welfare reform court case has serious concerns about the state’s ability to keep track of...

Publication to Offer Lessons Learned on Child Welfare Litigation

An array of people involved in child welfare litigation are preparing a publication that will discuss lessons learned from the decades of...

California Extends Foster Care to 21

The state with the nation’s most foster youths will no longer just cut them loose when they turn 18. California Gov. Arnold...

Education Department Warns Schools on Bullying

The Department of Education has notified schools and colleges that it intends to penalize systems that refuse to address pervasive problems with...

Virtual Financial Office Manages Aid for All Connecticut

Community college financial aid offices are struggling to find the resources to deal with a surge in the number of applicants and...

Pew Center Supports Research On Home Visitation Programs

The Pew Center has established 12 new home-visiting research projects to provide policymakers with greater information about how to improve state-based visitation...

Foster Parents Entitled to Higher Payments

Foster parents routinely complain that are entitled to more money to cover their costs, and a federal court in California recently agreed....

College Loan Defaults Rise

More people are defaulting on their student loans, as college graduates find it harder to get jobs, the U.S. Education Department reported...

HHS to Tighten Head Start Standards

The Department of Health and Human Services, expanding the Obama administration’s policy of making federal programs prove they are effective, has announced...

Promise Winners Named, Future Funds in Doubt

Twenty-one communities have been chosen to participate in one of the Obama administration’s most coveted new youth-related grant programs: the Promise Neighborhoods...

Boys & Girls Clubs’ Funding Fate Unknown

The fate of a proposed $465 million federal authorization for the Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA) is as shrouded in...

Some States Find JJDPA Not Worth the Money

Some state governments recently have discussed whether participating in the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA) is valuable, even before a...