Last week, the National Assessment Governing Board released the results of the 2019 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), known as The Nation’s Report Card.
Read MoreLast Friday, the Trump administration released draft language for a proposed rule that would remove important Obama-era non-discrimination regulations. The rule would reverse a regulation stating that “no person otherwise eligible will be excluded from participation in, denied the benefits of, or subjected to discrimination,” in any program that was funded by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Read MoreThe government told a federal court last month that an additional 1,556 immigrant children and parents were separated at the border under the Trump administration’s evil family separation policy. Families belong together—not torn apart at our border, nor separated within our interior communities. Together.
Read MoreArrive at the intersection of educational inequality, poverty and racial inequity and you’ll find a legion of substandard for-profit higher education programs that have long been under scrutiny for their predatory practices, high cost and low value.
Read MoreThis Thursday, the Children’s Bureau released the 26th annual report from the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS).
Read More“When immigrants are under attack, what do we do? Stand up. Fight back!”
Read MoreHundreds of thousands of American children are homeless—living in housing shared with other families, homeless shelters, motels, cars, or on the street—while the tools that would help them gather dust on the shelf.
Read MoreEarlier this school year, 6-year-old Kaia was handcuffed, arrested, and taken to a juvenile detention center where she was charged with battery for having a tantrum in her first grade class. How Kaia was treated is appalling, and yet the criminalization of our children is all too common: A child is arrested every 39 seconds in America and about 76,000 children are placed in the adult criminal justice system annually.
Read MoreCoordination and partnership between school systems and child welfare systems is essential. Teachers, who in most states are mandatory reporters, often serve as the frontline when it comes to identifying children in their classrooms who might be suffering from abuse or neglect and filing reports with their local child welfare agencies. As a result, educators and other school staff make up the largest percentage of abuse and neglect reports, and protect countless children every year by. But recently we’ve seen several troubling cases of schools misusing—and thus endangering—this important relationship.
Read MoreThe government’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program imperils our children’s—and nation’s—future success.
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