Press Room
Welcome to our press room!
Reporters may contact us here to speak to a National Center for Youth Law expert on a range of children and youth-rights issues. See below for recent press releases and for reporter resources, including explainers about complicated advocacy issues and guides to help reporters write fairly and equitably about youth impacted by government agencies and public systems.
Press Releases
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State reaches deal to improve education, mental services for incarcerated youths
June 22, 2021
CT Mirror
Washington state agrees to end hotel, office stays for foster youth
June 21, 2021
KING5
'Counseling Not Criminalization' Bill Unveiled to Boot Police From US Schools
June 18, 2021
Common Dreams
Ending Virtual-School Oppression: Black Students Disproportionately Punished for Harmless Behavior at Home During Zoom Classes
June 17, 2021
Sacramento Observer
Panic attacks highlight stress at shelters for migrant kids
June 14, 2021
Associated Press
“504 plan” disability protection favors students at Arizona’s wealthier, whiter schools
June 14, 2021
Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting