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„While humanitarian associations’ coverage of Gaza focuses on how to provide food, medicine, and shelter, another devastating consequence of wars is the loss of childhood itself. According to various reports and estimates, tens of thousands of children have been killed or injured in Israel’s war on Gaza, and many more have been affected by the loss of one or both parents.“
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Some in Gaza’s Youngest Generation May Not Even Know What Toys Are | Truthout
Children’s difficulty accessing toys in Gaza reflects the broader destruction of childhood there.Zack Kligler (Truthout)
NEW: Tennessee’s highest-security youth prisons are operated by a single private company.
Former staff say they felt pressure to hide abuse and other serious incidents from the state and to handle medical emergencies without calling 911.
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#News #Tennessee #Children #Prison #Abuse #CriminalJustice
Jason Crews’ Wayne Halfway House Failed to Report Abuse, Former Staff Say — ProPublica
Tennessee’s highest-security youth prisons are operated by a single private company. Former staff say they felt pressure to hide abuse and other serious incidents from the state and to handle medical emergencies without calling 911.Aliyya Swaby (ProPublica)
#Meta faces biggest #court fight yet over #socialmedia’s impact on #children
Meta Platforms will face a coalition of state attorneys general in a California #FederalCourt trial beginning on Wednesday over claims it engineered #Facebook & #Instagram to be #addictive to children, a case that could expose the company to massive damages & force it to make sweeping changes to its platforms.
#law #tech #MentalHealth #business
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The EPA spent hundreds of millions on lead remediation in Omaha, home of the nation’s largest residential Superfund site.
New soil tests by The Flatwater Free Press and ProPublica show that years later, many yards still have harmful levels of lead.
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#News #Omaha #Nebraska #Environment #Pollution #Children #Health #EPA
Our Soil Tests Found Lead in Omaha’s Yards Despite EPA Cleanup — ProPublica
The agency spent hundreds of millions on lead remediation in Omaha, Nebraska, home of the nation’s largest residential Superfund site. New soil tests by the Flatwater Free Press and ProPublica show that many yards still have harmful levels of lead.Leah Keinama (ProPublica)
Thousands of #children, sponsors arrested by #ICE after tips from #US child migrant agency
…more than 12,000 people [have been] arrested by US #immigration authorities following tips from the Office of Refugee Resettlement [ #ORR ] during #Trump’s second term, acc/to internal government data reviewed exclusively by Reuters.
Reclaiming stolen childhoods: swimming classes resume in Gaza after three years of war
In sea pools built with sandbags and rubble, Amjed Tantesh gives traumatised children brief respite from their daily livesSeham Tantesh (The Guardian)
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 matterJennifer Berry Hawes (ProPublica)
