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CNCS Announces Learn and Serve America Grants

  Thirty-six Learn and Serve America grants – totaling almost $20 million and designed to engage students in service-learning projects that enhance...

Career and Technical Education: States Have Broad Flexibility in Implementing Perkins IV

Casey’s 2009 Kids Count Shows Improvement in Six of 10 Areas

  The 2009 Kids Count Data Book, the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s annual statistical analysis of children’s well-being released today, showed a...

Extending Foster Care to Age 21: Benefits, Costs and Opportunities for States

Chapin Hall and National Governors Association This Web conference examines the possible impact of the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions...

CNCS Gets Bigger Budget Hike – for Now

Casey’s 2009 Kids Count Shows Improvement in Six of 10 Areas

  The 2009 Kids Count Data Book, the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s annual statistical analysis of children’s well-being released today, showed a...

Volunteering in America

  Corporation for National and Community Service     The number of young adults (16 to 24 years old) who volunteered in 2008 rose...

Windfall

  If you run an effective college readiness program and were banking on crucial federal funding that failed to come through, do...

House Passes Labor, Health and Education Appropriations Bill

  The House of Representatives passed the appropriations bill for Labor, Health and Education Programs today 264-153, leaving intact the $1.069 billion ...

Did Cops Taser Foster Kids?

    The Illinois Office of State Guardian is suing Jefferson County  (Mount Vernon) and law enforcement officers there, alleging that a...

Life After Debt?

A growing number of low-income minority students who go to for-profit colleges are taking out and defaulting on private student loans, which...

Children’s Aid Society Announces New CEO

Children’s Aid Society (CAS), which provides a range of programs for 150,000 New York City youth each year, has hired Richard Buery...

Afterschool Workforce Development Strategies: From Recruitment to Career Pathways

  Children Now   After-school workforce development projects that focus their outreach efforts on specific demographics, like high school and college students,...

America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2009

Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics An annual federal inter-agency report shows a few small changes in the well-being of...

Trends in Child Health 1997-2006: Assessing Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Diagnoses of ADHD/ADD and of Learning Disability

Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies Though it makes no effort to establish possible causes and some of its findings are...

Covering Kids & Families Evaluation: Synthesis of 10 Case Studies: Exploring Medicaid and SCHIP Enrollment Trends and Their Links to Policy and Practice

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Simplified or joint forms, the elimination of face-to-face interviews, a centralized system for eligibility processing and presumptive...

Workforce Investment Act Needs Updating, Agency Says

Jobs for the Future (JFF)  There’s no shortage of ideas on how to retool the Workforce Investment Act in order to make...

Young Voters Push Participation in 2008 to 49 percent

  Young voters – specifically blacks and Hispanics – were the only demographic group to show a significantly higher voting percentage in...

House Appropriations Committee Passes CNCS Budget

The House Appropriations Committee on Friday fought back an effort to withhold all money for AmeriCorps programs pending an investigation into the...

Obama’s Community College Proposal – Where Does Youth Work Fit?

President Barack Obama’s $12 billion proposal to boost community colleges would bring new opportunities – and demands – to the youth field....