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AFT School Reform Effort Launched

The American Federation of Teachers, a national teachers’ union, recently launched a privately funded school reform effort that covers out-of-school time programs....

Robinson Nominated to Lead OJP; Good News for Schiraldi Supporters?

The “Yes We Can” attitude at President Obama’s Justice Department must have resonated with Laurie Robinson. The Clinton-era assistant attorney general for...

Facilities Close, Construction Stagnates – Except in a State That Needs Closure and Stagnation?

The recession appears to be stopping juvenile facility building in its tracks, and even expediting the closure of existing buildings. Except in...

Funding News of the Week: Public School Innovation

The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) recently launched a union-led, private foundation-supported initiative to fund and implement public school innovations. One of...

Closing California’s Division of Juvenile Facilities

The study calls for closure of the entire Division of Juvenile Facilities (DJF), proposing that its enormous budget could be better spent...

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Watch: House Education and Labor Committee hearing on “America’s Competitiveness through High School Reform”

House Education and Labor Committee hearing on “America’s Competitiveness through High School Reform.” Watch the webcast by clicking here: http://edwork.edgeboss.net/wmedia/edwork/fc/fc051209.wvx.

College costly, but so is dropping out of school, report says

What’s the difference between a high school dropout and a college graduate? About $50,000 in income a year. That’s according to a...

States Approaching the GAP with Caution

From a policy perspective, there is nary a person with a bad word to say about the guardianship assistance payments established by...

U.S. high schools lambasted as ‘dropout factories’

At a time when there’s “no work for dropouts,” America’s schools are functioning as “dropout factories.” That’s according to testimony that Robert...

Weekly Notes: Funding at ACF; Children’s Rights Never Loses; Colorado Examines Racial Disparity; and more

***A few new funding announcements from the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), which may finally have a permanent boss soon. –Family...

President Obama’s 2010 Budget Coverage at Youth Today

Youth Today has summarized how the budget proposal released this week by President Obama affects after-school, mentoring, juvenile justice and community service...

First Tee’s Moneyball Keeps Rolling

One week after the Justice Department cited a federal grant to The First Tee golf program as an example of ethically questionable...

Weekly Notes: Forget About 2009 Demo Grants at OJJDP; Obama’s 2010 JJ Budget; North Carolina May Join the Rest of Country; and more

***The biggest JJ news of the week was certainly the U.S. Supreme Court deciding to  consider the constitutionality of life without parole...

Obama Budget Cuts Some Youth Programs, Grows Others

President Barack Obama released a proposed 2010 budget Thursday that would eliminate several funding streams for youth programs, including $82 million in juvenile...

2009 Best Adoption-Friendly Workplaces

The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption came out with its annual list of the Best Adoption-Friendly Workplaces. The ranking is based on...

More on Supreme Court’s LWOP Cases

As Youth Today and myriad other news sources reported earlier this week, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear two cases that may...

New Drug Court, Mentoring Grants Available

Three new grant opportunities, for Second Chance mentoring, family drug courts and strategic advancements to mentoring, are on the street. All have June 15 deadlines....

Pitching New HOPE for Dropouts

Washington—The effort to focus more attention on the national high school dropout problem came to the National Press Club this week, where...

Sánchez Leads Push for Anti-Bullying Policies

Calif. Rep. Linda Sánchez (D) Anti-bullying policies would be required of schools receiving Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Community Act funding under...