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$18 Million Grant Supports Chicago Middle-School Students
Source: PNN Online
To increase the success of middle-school students in Chicago and bolster their chances of graduating high school, The Atlantic Philanthropies, an international foundation with a focus on children and youth, will award a major grant to support a five-school effort over four years. The grant…
Resource type: News
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$18 Million Grant Supports Innovative Program to Bolster Success of Middle-School Students in Five Chicago Public Schools
Source: LISC Chicago
Integrated Services in Schools Program to be managed by LISC/Chicago's New Communities Program AgenciesTo increase the success of middle-school students in Chicago and bolster their chances of graduating high school, The Atlantic Philanthropies, an international foundation with a focus on children and youth, will award…
Resource type: News
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Child Care Law Reporting Project Interim Report
Source: Child Care Law Reporting Project
Children in the Republic of Ireland are most frequently taken into care for neglect, and almost a fifth of children taken into care have special needs, according to this report from the newly created Child Care Law Reporting Project. The report's striking findings also show…
Resource type: Research Report
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Bill would hurt Liberty City kids
Source: The Miami Herald
Last year was a year of change and Liberty City, for once, was ahead of the curve. In July 2008, Gov. Crist signed the Florida Children's Zone into law in Liberty City. Modeled after the innovative Harlem Children's Zone, the Magic City Youth Zone seeks to…
Resource type: News
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After-School Sessions Expanding the Reach of Summer Program
Source: Education Week
Study shows children who took part improved their reading skills by Kathleen Kennedy Manzo Following a day of classwork, about 40 students from neighboring schools gather in the media center at Fairview Elementary School for a celebration of a day well spent. After a reading…
Resource type: News
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I-155 seeks to expand kids' health insurance
Source: The Associated Press State & Local Wire
by AMY BETH HANSON Montana voters are being asked to support a measure to fund health insurance for up to an additional 30,000 children. Initiative 155, the Healthy Montana Kids plan, seeks to set aside an estimated $22 million in state funding each year to…
Resource type: News
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N.J. and feds tangle in court over kids' health care rules
Source: The Star-Ledger (Newark, New Jersey)
by ROBERT SCHWANEBERG A U.S. District Court judge heard arguments yesterday on whether a federal agency acted unlawfully when it told New Jersey to restrict its program for providing health insurance to children in lower-income families. If enforced, the so-called "August 17 directive" - outlined…
Resource type: News
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How Nila Tanzil helps children in Indonesia continue to learn despite COVID-19
Source: Atlantic Fellows
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Atlantic Fellows are carrying out projects designed to minimize the impact of COVID-19 on endangered and vulnerable communities worldwide. As from April 2020, more than 70 Fellows successfully applied for a total of 57 Solidarity Grants – short-term, rapid…
Resource type: Video
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Childhood Intervention Programme Sees Kids’ IQ Soar
Source: Irish Examiner
An early childhood intervention programme, involving 200 Dublin families, saw children’s IQ rise by 10 points. [caption id="attachment_77213" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Marian Dennis and her son Jamie McClure Dennis. Picture: Conor Healy Photography[/caption] By Joyce Fegan The trial programme, Preparing for Life, which ran from 2008…
Resource type: News
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DC Civil Rights Organizations Fail to Represent Education Civil Rights Agenda
Source: The Hill
By Judith Browne Dianis, John H. Jackson and Pedro NogueraIn recent weeks, a few national civil rights organizations including the National Council of La Raza, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the League of United Latin American Citizens and National Urban League…
Resource type: News