A woman who sexually abused a minor. Boxer Mike Tyson, who served time for rape. Both of these people successfully launched private schools that collected public money.

As the voucher system grows more popular, few states have guardrails in place.
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#News #Education #School #Parenting #Teaching #Children #Florida #Arizona

Thousands of Private Schools Take Public Money, Operate With Little Scrutiny — ProPublica

As private schools proliferate, states are choosing a hands-off approach to regulating them. The backgrounds of school founders — sometimes with criminal histories — often don’t matter

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In 2023, New Mexico’s AG ordered an investigation into one school district after ProPublica and New Mexico In Depth revealed Native students were expelled more often than any other group.

The investigation confirmed “substantial racial disparities.”
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#News #NewMexico #Law #School #Education #Indigenous #Children

New Mexico AG Calls for School Reform in Gallup-McKinley County — ProPublica

The state’s attorney general launched an investigation after reporting by New Mexico In Depth and ProPublica exposed high rates of harsh punishment for Native American and Hispanic children in Gallup-McKinley County Schools.

^{Trip Jennings (ProPublica)}

NEW: Citing ProPublica’s reporting, two lawmakers have called on the CDC to address a “preventable public health crisis” of parents refusing the vitamin K shot for their newborns — which has led to babies suffering uncontrollable bleeding and even dying.
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#News #Health #PublicHealth #Congress #Children #Parenting #CDC #RFKJr

Lawmakers Call for CDC to Track Vitamin K Shot Refusal, Cite ProPublica Report — ProPublica

Two members of Congress are urging federal officials to monitor vitamin K shot refusals by parents and the potential consequences for their newborns, including severe bleeding or death.

^{Duaa Eldeib (ProPublica)}

As the #Pentagon stays quiet, AP reconstructs a #US strike killing over 100 Iranian #children

A US missile killed Iranian schoolchildren four months ago. We still don’t know the full story

#TrumpsWar #IranWar #Iran #war #Trump #WarCrimes #RulesOfWar #InternationalLaw #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #MiddleEast
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Awesome!

#Oregon makes Dolly Parton #free #book program permanent
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#reading #amreading #children #reading #amreading #literacy

Watch Kotek talk about program bringing free books to Oregon kids

A program providing free books to kids under 5 each month will be a permanent Oregon program under a bill signed by Gov. Tina Kotek.

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US Senator warns of #Trump admin plan to hastily remove over 500 unaccompanied #immigrant #children

A Democratic US senator warns the Trump admin is getting ready to round up 500 immigrant children in a hasty effort to remove them from the country, bypassing #legal protections. It would be their second attempt after a federal court intervened last year in an overnight plan to fly out hundreds of children on Labor Day weekend.

#law #immigration #TheCrueltyIsThePoint
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