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California directs districts to offer remote independent study this fall - EdSource

July 7, 2021

With the pandemic still reverberating across California, districts must offer students an independent study option this fall, but with improvements to what was offered during the shutdown and pre-pandemic.…

Woman files wrongful death lawsuit against Children’s Receiving Home, Sacramento County after her daughter’s death

July 6, 2021

The mother of a 12-year-old girl who was hit and killed on Business 80 last January has sued Sacramento County and the foster home her daughter walked away from the night of her death.…

U.S. closing 6 makeshift housing sites for unaccompanied migrant children - CBS News

June 30, 2021

Starting Wednesday, the Biden administration is set to begin closing six emergency housing facilities it stood up in Texas and California this spring to accommodate the record number of unaccompanied children who were entering U.S. custody along the border, the Department of Health and Human…

California moves to phase out its state-run youth prisons - Associated Press

June 29, 2021

California is phasing out its state-run youth prisons and shifting the responsibility to counties, 162 years after lawmakers created the first alternative to housing children as young as 12 alongside adults in San Quentin and Folsom state prisons.…

Schools Sued For Sending Students With Disabilities To Psych Wards - Disability Scoop

June 24, 2021

Advocates for kids with disabilities and minority children sued Palm Beach County’s public schools this week over their practice of forcing hundreds of students a year to undergo mental health exams at psychiatric facilities.…

Washington to end costly hotel, office stays for foster youth - The Center Square

June 22, 2021

Foster youth in Washington will no longer sleep in hotels or state offices under a pending deal between the state and lawyers representing the young people.…

Palm Beach County schools sued over their use of Baker Act to send kids to psych wards - Palm Beach Post

June 22, 2021

Advocates for disabled and minority children sued Palm Beach County’s public schools Tuesday over their practice of forcing hundreds of students a year to undergo mental health exams at psychiatric facilities.…

Migrant youth describe desperation to leave large shelters - Associated Press

June 22, 2021

A 13-year-old Honduran girl who spent two months at the government’s largest emergency shelter for migrant children said she was put on suicide watch and was eating only popsicles and juice because the food smelled so foul. At another site, a 17-year-old Salvadoran girl said…

‘Every day, I feel really sad’: Migrant children still in temporary sites for prolonged periods, attorneys say - CNN

June 22, 2021

Migrant children who crossed the US-Mexico border alone are still spending prolonged time in temporary government facilities, raising concerns among attorneys, who say the conditions are inadequate for kids, according to a court filing Monday.

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State reaches deal to improve education, mental services for incarcerated youths - CT Mirror

June 22, 2021

Lawyers representing young people incarcerated in adult prison have reached an agreement with the state over the Department of Correction’s delivery of educational and mental health services to youth held at Manson Youth Institution as the pandemic wanes in correctional facilities across Connecticut.…