All posts tagged "Congress/Federal Policy"

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  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...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  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...

• Research

  Weekly Notes: Illinois juvenile justice commission sells report well; Walsh Act update; and more

  ***As we write, Congress is playing a lively game of partisan chicken over a deal to fund the government for fiscal 2012...

• Reason for Hope in Urban School Reform

  At first glance, it would appear there is little to cheer about with America’s urban schools. Results from the “Nation’s Report card,”...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  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...

• Weekly Notes: A lively luncheon; new Justice grants; help shape Wyoming’s new juvie center; and more

  ***A slew of juvenile justice experts were in the old capitol city this week for the MacArthur Foundation’s Models for Change conference...

• News

  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...

• News

  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...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  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...

• News

  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....

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  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...

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  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...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Weekly Notes: Helpful tool to seek unlikely partners in philanthropy; psych meds in the news again; big upcoming events in D.C.; and more

  Notes is back after a week hiatus. We were going to post on Black Friday, but somebody pepper sprayed us in the...

• News

  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...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  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...

• Expanding Child Abuse Laws Unlikely to Protect More Kids

  High-profile crimes can generate watershed changes in policy and practice. The publicity surrounding the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson helped lead to...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Deborah Jeffrey Nominated for Inspector General Job at CNCS

  President Barack Obama nominated Deborah Jeffrey last week to serve as Inspector General for the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS),...

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  Federal Folly

  Justice Policy Institute JPI argues that the spending in the 2012 Justice Department appropriations will help fuel unnecessary incarceration brought on by...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Weekly Notes: Federal juvenile justice money lacks certainty, champions; documentary on kids in adult prison to air Sunday; and more

   “Beginning of the end?” –Joe Vignati, Georgia Juvenile Justice Specialist “We are finding out we don’t have too many friends” – Liz...

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  Education Under Arrest

  Justice Policy Institute The number of school resource officers in schools rose 38 percent between 1997 and 2007, according to the U.S....