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Fourth Lawsuit Challenging DeVos’s Use of Pandemic Relief Funds to Bolster Private Schools Moves Forward as Attorneys Await Secretary’s Next Move - The 74

September 10, 2020

Plaintiffs in a fourth federal case over a U.S. Department of Education’s controversial rule for allocating COVID-19 emergency funds to private schools are pushing forward with their lawsuit as they wait to see whether Secretary Betsy DeVos will appeal last Friday’s ruling by a D.C.…

Judge orders detaining migrant children in hotels - Associated Press

September 4, 2020

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Friday to stop detaining immigrant children in hotels before expelling them from the United States, saying the much-criticized practice skirted “fundamental humanitarian protections.”…

Judge blocks Trump administration from detaining migrant children in hotels - CNN

September 4, 2020

A federal judge issued an order Friday blocking the US government from detaining migrant children in hotels, a practice that has been a key part of a secretive new system that immigration advocates had warned was putting kids in danger.…

California aims to phase out state-operated youth prisons - Associated Press

September 4, 2020

After years of fruitless debate, California now is on the verge of phasing out its state-operated juvenile prison system, a move hailed by reform advocates and criticized by counties that would assume responsibility for some of the state’s most violent criminal youth.…

The US detained hundreds of migrant children in hotels as the pandemic flared - CNN

September 3, 2020

Hundreds of migrant children have been held in hotels and guarded by government contractors in recent months as part of a secretive new system that advocates warn puts kids in danger.…

COVID 19 exacerbates children’s mental health crisis

August 27, 2020

Youth are at greater risk to mental health issues during the coronavirus pandemic. Listen below to KCSB’s Robert Stark speak with Stanford clinical professor of psychology, Dr. Steven Adelsheim, and NCYL’s Equity and Access Attorney, Rachel Velcoff Hults.

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A New Title IX Rule Essentially Allows Accused Sexual Assailants to Hide Evidence Against Them - Time

August 14, 2020

In that way, the new regulation institutionalizes gender-based discrimination and creates campuses where sexual violence is not only tolerated, but more likely.…

Her Rapist Threatened to Make Her “Disappear.” Instead of Asylum, ICE Put Her in a Hotel and Sent Her Back. - ProPublica

August 4, 2020

Thousands of migrant children — including babies — have been expelled by the Trump administration since March. Some have been held in hotels without access to lawyers or family. Advocates say many are now “virtually impossible” to find.…

US government sued after report of detained migrant children at Hampton Inn hotels - US Today

July 27, 2020

Legal advocacy groups have sued the U.S. government to try to stop the expulsion of children believed to be detained in Arizona and Texas hotel rooms by the Trump administration under an emergency declaration citing the novel coronavirus.…

AP Exclusive: Migrant kids held in US hotels, then expelled - Associated Press

July 22, 2020

The Trump administration is detaining immigrant children as young as 1 in hotels, sometimes for weeks, before deporting them to their home countries under policies that have effectively shut down the nation’s asylum system during the coronavirus pandemic, according to documents obtained by The Associated…