Child Welfare

Student Well-Being & Movement Suicide Spurs Va. District To Revise Misconduct Probes
The Roanoke, Va., city school district has fine-tuned its policy on investigations of alleged employee misconduct following a teacher’s suicide last year.
Linda Jacobson, March 31, 2004
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School & District Management Foster-Care Children Are Poorly Educated, 3-State Study Charges
The future of young people who "age out" of foster care is severely compromised because they lack strong academic backgrounds, concludes a three- state study of 17-year-olds ready to leave the system.
Julie Blair, February 25, 2004
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Gov. Phil Bredesen
Early Childhood Controversy Erupts Anew Over Tenn. Child-Services Agency
In the latest development in an ongoing controversy, Gov. Phil Bredesen has ordered major changes in the Tennessee Department of Children's Services after a court-ordered audit found the agency was mismanaging many of its obligations to the children it serves.
Joetta L. Sack, December 3, 2003
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Federal Education Issues High On the U.N.'s Agenda For Session on Children
Providing all of the world's children with a free, high-quality primary education by 2015 and giving girls the same access to schooling as boys by 2005 were among the targets expected to be endorsed late last week at the United Nations' Special Session on Children.
Linda Jacobson, May 15, 2002
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4 min read
Student Well-Being & Movement Principal Charged With Ignoring Possible Child Abuse
Clarification (added April 17, 2002):
The misdemeanor charges reported in this story have since been dismissed against the principal, Corazon Rodil, according to authorities, because the statute of limitations had expired between the time the alleged reporting violation occurred and the date the charge was filed.

Ms. Rodil, then the principal of Anne Darling Elementary School in San Jose, Calif., informed law-enforcement officials of allegations against 5th grade teacher Mario Duarte in 2000. During their investigation, police said they found that Ms. Rodil had previously learned about allegations against Mr. Duarte, but did not report them. The charges against Ms. Rodil stemmed from the earlier period.

Mr. Duarte later pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 19 years in prison for molesting five children between 1998 and 2000.

Mark Stricherz, December 13, 2000
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Jap-Ji Kaur Keating
Student Well-Being & Movement Academic Fate of Foster Children Gaining More Attention
Although the educational needs of children in foster care have generally not received the level of attention that many experts say they should, efforts to change that situation appear to be growing around the country.
Linda Jacobson, September 13, 2000
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Sharon Kagan
Early Childhood A Look at Welfare Reform
"Remember the Children: Mothers Balance Work and Child Care Under Welfare Reform," a report from researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and Yale University, offers the following preliminary findings about how families affected by welfare-to-work programs are faring:
February 9, 2000
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Student Well-Being & Movement Opinion Children & Families
Child Abuse: The United States has become a safer place for everyone except children, says a new study from a child-advocacy group.
April 14, 1999
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Student Well-Being & Movement Lower-Income Children Less Involved in School, Survey Shows
Children in lower-income families are more likely than those who live in wealthier households to have behavioral and emotional problems and are less likely to be "highly engaged" in school, a national survey of families concludes.
Linda Jacobson, February 3, 1999
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Student Well-Being & Movement Calif. Initiative Would Spend Cigarette-Tax Hike on Children

Early last year, Rob Reiner stepped out of his roles as an award-winning actor and director and entered the world of policy and politics with a national public-awareness campaign about the developmental needs of young children.

Linda Jacobson, October 21, 1998
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Student Well-Being & Movement One-on-One
When Marie Buonato met Daniel three years ago, he was on his ninth foster home, he had been expelled from a private school, and he hadn't been enrolled in a new school for several weeks because his social worker didn't know where he would end up being placed.
Linda Jacobson, September 9, 1998
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21 min read
Early Childhood Latest Kids Count Shows Child Care Elusive for the Poor

Increasing child-care subsidies, rewarding employers that provide child-care assistance, and expanding tax credits to stay-at-home parents are just a few ways to make child care more affordable for low-income families, according to this year's Kids Count Data Book.

Linda Jacobson, May 6, 1998
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Student Well-Being & Movement For Teachers, Reporting Abuse Is a Tough Call
Something was wrong with the 5-year-old in the kindergarten class.
Beth Reinhard, April 15, 1998
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Student Well-Being & Movement Victims of Abuse
April 15, 1998
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