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Child Welfare Reform Meets Recession; Recession Wins
A report released today about efforts to overhaul Michigan’s child welfare system shows how the recession gets in the way of reform....
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Flexible Funding Improves Child Welfare in Florida
There’s new evidence that a more flexible system for spending federal child welfare money helps to reduce abuse and keep kids out...
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$650M Available for Innovation in Education
The U.S. Department of Education today released its “final priorities” and the grant application for the $650 million Investing in Innovation Fund....
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One Way to Stop Disruptive Sports Parents: Ban Them
A Massachusetts YMCA took an extreme step last week in response to the problem of disruptive parents at sports events: It banned...
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Grad Nation Dropout Prevention Campaign Targets Class of 2018
If low-performing schools are theaters of war in the struggle against the dropout problem, then expect to see Grad Nation – the...
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States May Be Able to Shield Juveniles from Registries
States may be able to shield most juvenile sex offenders from inclusion on a public registry and still achieve compliance with the...
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Federal Court Orders State to Cover More Foster Care Costs
Foster care group homes in California are about to get a 30 percent increase in reimbursements from the state, thanks in part...
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Youth Opportunities Still Knock
Baltimore—When Ernest Dorsey spoke last month to 20 youths during their orientation at the Westside Youth Opportunity Community Center in a forlorn...
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Changing of the Juvenile Justice Guard
Ronald Angel, Ark. Leo Arnone, Conn. In 2007, eleven states hired new leaders to oversee their juvenile justice systems. That’s nothing...
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California’s Gambit Pays Off for Kinship Care
A threat by California to do an end-run around federal regulations that restricted funding for guardianship programs – even though the...
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Is Child Abuse Declining?
Few groups of people are more difficult to count than abused kids, given that both the perpetrators and the victims try to...
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Obama Budget Tries to Make Change
A proposed appropriation of $210 million for Promise Grants – the Obama administration’s program to replicate the successful Harlem Children’s Zone approach...
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Youth Today Founder Retires; New Publisher Named
Bill Treanor Sara Fritz Prize-winning investigative journalist Sara Fritz will become publisher of Youth Today in April, succeeding co-founder and Publisher...
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Newsmakers for March 2010
Nonprofits Last year around this time, two drug abuse prevention groups were heralding their looming merger as a perfect union. The National...
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A Look Back at the Adoption and Safe Families Act
Urban Institute & Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) This series of articles reflect the effects and aftermath of...
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What Are the Important Differences Among Kinship Foster Families?
Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago This study looked at family structure and household composition of families providing kinship care,...
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Diploma Attainment Among Teen Mothers
Child Trends This Child Trends report, based on recently released data from a national survey, addresses whether teen mothers go on...
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Expanding Access and Opportunity: The Impact of the Gates Millennium Scholars Program
Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) The Gates Millennium Scholars (GMS) program, established in 1999 by the Bill & Melinda Gates...
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College- and Career-Ready: Using Outcomes Data to Hold High Schools Accountable for Student Success
Education Sector This report focuses on a new way of determining which high schools are turning out the students best prepared...
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Conceptualizing Juvenile Prostitution as Child Maltreatment: Findings from the National Juvenile Prostitution Study
University of New Hampshire, Sage Publications While juveniles involved in prostitution were previously viewed as adolescent runaways and “street youth” engaging...
