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Forced Drugging of Kids Continues - Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting

January 2, 2019

The government is violating a federal judge’s order to stop medicating immigrant kids at a troubled Texas shelter without proper consent, according to the children’s attorneys.…

How Betsy DeVos Is Making Schools More Dangerous For Kids - KPFA

December 21, 2018

The Trump White House on Tuesday released a report on school safety that was commissioned in the aftermath of the 2017 Parkland, Florida massacre. Shockingly the report downplays the role of guns in gun-related school violence. Instead it focuses on undoing disciplinary policies that were…

Apprenticeships For Youth Now Have National Momentum - Youth Today

December 20, 2018

Da’Sean Harrison, 22, has ambitions to be a general contractor, a master of all trades. Now working on a construction job in the Seattle area, he marvels over the skills of one worker he and his co-workers have nicknamed “wizard.”…

Several Thousand Migrant Children In U.S. Custody Could Be Released Before Christmas - NPR

December 18, 2018

The Department of Health and Human Services is changing the ways it conducts background checks on sponsors of migrant children, a surprise move that will mean the release of hundreds of such children from controversial government-contracted shelters across the country.…

DOS VECES ABANDONADA: LAS INSTITUCIONES PARA NIÑOS ADOPTADOS NO ESTÁN HACIENDO LO SUFICIENTE PARA EDUCARLOS - Otras Voces en Educación

December 15, 2018

Cuando todavía vivía con su familia, cuando la escuela estaba al otro lado de la calle de su casa en el oeste de Filadelfia, Johnathan Hamilton solía repasar las tareas de lectura e investigar cuestiones religiosas en línea. Tropezó con las fracciones (las matemáticas siempre…

Caregivers for 3600 migrant teens lack complete abuse checks - CBS News

December 7, 2018

Nearly every adult working with children in the U.S. — from nannies to teachers to coaches — has undergone state screenings to ensure they have no proven history of abusing or neglecting kids. One exception: thousands of workers at two federal detention facilities holding 3,600…

Google and 49ers Sow $2.4 Million Investment into Youth Justice Reform in California - Chronicle of Social Change

December 4, 2018

Guzman said that the youth justice reform effort will revolve around three goals: preventing all young people from being transferred to the adult justice system, reducing the number of youth incarcerated in the county’s juvenile justice system and expanding the use of community-based alternatives to…