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HHS Requires Some Head Start Programs to Compete for First Time

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will for the first time force underperforming Head Start grantees to compete for funding...

Learning from Massachusetts’ Juvenile Justice Experiment

In 1971, Massachusetts juvenile justice boss Jerry Miller and his lead staffer, Tom Jeffers, sat down in a Boston pub and decided...

Potential 2012 Appropriations Deal A Vague and Mixed Bag for Youth Programs

Note: This story was corrected to reflect an accurate figure for the Corporation for National and Community Service Head Start is poised...

Illinois Probe Finds Rushed, Unmeasured Process for Juvenile Release, Reentry and Parole

Illinois has seen significant changes to the front-end of its juvenile justice system, but its system of releasing and assisting incarcerated juveniles...

Fate of Child Welfare League of America Rests with Pension Plan

The Child Welfare League of America has taken drastic steps to stay alive as competition and the economy have driven membership down...

Keeping Foster Youths’ School Connection

Veronica Carrillo, a veteran employee of Child Protective Services in Sacramento County, Calif., still remembers the frantic afternoons child caseworkers once devoted...

Federal Budget Watch 2012

Congress has approved deep cuts in federal juvenile justice funding for 2012, but neither the House nor the Senate has voted on...

Q&A: H. Ted Rubin

The oldest kids who were in the system when H. Ted Rubin was a Colorado juvenile judge are now 57 years old....

Have We Gotten It Wrong on School Reform

Center on Education Policy A letter from Jack Jennings, CEO of the Center on Education Policy, analyzes a recent book by Marc...

Family-Provider Relationships: A Multidisciplinary Review of High Quality Practices and Associations with Family, Child and Provider Outcomes

Administration for Children and Families Positive relationships between service providers and the adults receiving services are connected with better outcomes for youth,...

Analysis of State Bullying Laws and Policies

U.S. Department of Education The department examined the extent to which states legislatively required schools to address bullying and what model policies...

Youth Risk Behavior Survey

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention This 2009 survey by the CDC looks at health-risk behaviors among young people in 9th through...

Review of Organizing Schools to Improve Student Achievement

National Education Policy Center Broken up into three sections – Effects size, monetary benefits and costs – the report analyzes three education...

Rate at Which Psychiatric Meds Are Prescribed to Foster Youth Alarms GAO

The Obama Administration told states last week of its intention to find out more about their practices when it came to monitoring...

Karen Mathis Leaving Big Brothers Big Sisters of America

Note: This story was updated on Dec. 1 with more up-to-date information on the organization’s finances. Big Brothers Big Sisters of America...

House Subcommitee Discusses Soaring Cost of College

The Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training for the House Committee on Education and the Workforce met today to discuss college...

Family-Provider Relationships: A Multidisciplinary Review

Administration for Children and Families Positive relationships between service providers and the adults receiving services are connected with better outcomes for youth,...

Newsmakers for November 2011

NONPROFITS Milwaukee-based Families International, which operates the major trade group Alliance for Children and Families, paused last month to remember its longtime...