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1.8KDeAngela Burns-Wallace named president and CEO of the Kauffman Foundation
DeAngela Burns-Wallace succeeded interim president Susan Chambers.
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2.0KCalifornia Office of Youth and Community Restoration Director Katherine Lucero: There’s ‘room for improvement’
"Our office has no actual authority over the facilities."
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2.0KOnce a ‘badass Latina’ and handcuffed schoolboys, they now push for juvenile justice reform
Personal experiences in the juvenile justice system shapes their advocacy of justice reform.
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3.0KAre California counties ready to handle juvenile offenders now that state youth prisons are shuttered?
“The state opened up Pandora’s box and now we’re trying to manage this disaster.”
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1.5KWashington’s $5M youth homelessness effort is ramping up. Is it working?
Delays and slow spending stalled some programs in their first year.
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1.9KYAP CEO Gary Ivory on leading young people from hard places to redemption
Gary Ivory is the first Black CEO of Youth Advocate Programs.
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1.6KNACC names Shereen White as 2023 Outstanding Legal Advocate
Shereen White, J.D. is the director of advocacy and policy at Children’s Rights.
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1.7KYoung goat farmer uses YouTube to spread the word about raising a herd
Sylvia Smith found her true passion in goats at age 12.
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3.7KThree years on, kids with long COVID struggle to get care
Hundreds of thousands of children and teens are living with long COVID.
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3.5KHow after-school clubs became a new battleground in the Satanic Temple’s push to preserve separation of church and state
The Satanic Temple has filed suits seeking the same rights afforded to Christian groups.
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1.6KStephanie Cornell appointed executive director of the Walton Family Foundation
Most recently, Cornell served as managing director of the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation.
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1.6KEPA proposes lower lead exposure limit in daycares, homes
The higher standards could benefit up to a half million children under age 6.
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1.6KWashington homelessness group exposed sensitive data on kids, young adults
Health and safety information on hundreds of young clients was made public.
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1.3KAirbus afterschool classes help aviation careers take off
This pre-apprentice program trains high schoolers for careers at Airbus’ Mobile, Alabama, assembly plant.
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1.3KShawna Rosenzweig named president of Camp Fire
Rosenzweig has served as Camp Fire’s chief strategy officer for the past four years.
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1.9KToday’s racial, social tensions prompt a revival of yesteryear’s ‘freedom schools’
Some of today’s freedom schools enroll only Black youth, others a "racial rainbow."
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1.5KGisele C. Shorter appointed president and CEO of Nellie Mae Education Foundation
Shorter previously served as director of national education strategy at the Raikes Foundation.
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1.2KWith no new funding from the state, Texas schools are breaking the bank to pay for teacher raises
Lawmakers ended this year’s legislative session without giving public schools any money for raises.
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1.1KMorning-after pill vending machines gain popularity on college campuses post-Roe
The machines help ensure emergency contraceptives are cheap, discreet and widely available.
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1.5KNicole Rodriguez Leach named executive director of Grantmakers for Education
Leach began work on July 1, succeeding Celine Coggins who left in December 2022.
