Child Protection Law Report articles

Recent articles from Child Protection Law Report

From schoolhouse to jailhouse is a catch phrase with much truth.(SLANTS & TRENDS)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... FROM SCHOOLHOUSE TO JAILHOUSE is a catch phrase with much truth. One third of high school students do not graduate and 77 percent of prison inmates lack high school diplomas. The Alliance for Excellent Education estimates that the lifetime cost to the U.S. of just the class of 2004's high...

Recovery high schools: supportive education, not enough spaces.
April 1, 2006... It is difficult to pinpoint when an approach used in a few places becomes a movement, but the time is at hand for recovery schools, tiny public and private high schools that serve students who have been in treatment for substance dependence and abuse and who seek an education away from former...

April: Child Abuse Prevention month starts with good numbers.(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... April is Child Abuse Prevention Month and it starts off with good news: the number of children abused or neglected in 2004 was 34,000 fewer than the number of children who were victimized the year before. Still, 2004 saw 872,000 maltreatment cases, the majority of which involved neglect, and...

Challenges to the unfunded mandate of the No Child Left Behind Act received support in the form of amicus briefs from six states, the District of Columbia, the governor of Pennsylvania, school administrators, and state and local elected officials. The states are Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin.(BRIEFLY NOTED)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... CHALLENGES TO THE UNFUNDED mandate of the No Child Left Behind Act received support in the form of amicus briefs from six states, the District of Columbia, the governor of Pennsylvania, school administrators, and state and local elected officials. The states are Connecticut, Delaware,...

The nation's largest hispanic advocacy organization, the National Council of La Raza, recently announced its support of the No Child Left Behind Act.(BRIEFLY NOTED)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... THE NATION'S LARGEST HISPANIC advocacy organization, the National Council of La Raza, recently announced its support of the No Child Left Behind Act. "NCLB can close the achievement gap between ELLs--English language learners--and their peers. But our report shows that it will not be...