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Educating foster youth is critical to their — and our — future
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20.5.2013 |
MinnPost |
| Foster youth are at higher risk of poor academic achievement, including higher dropout rates and truancy, than their peers who are from stable, permanent families. While post-secondary education is a given for many Minnesota children, it may seem like only a dream to young adults in the foster care system. The work of the Children’s Justice Initiative, a statewide collaborative between the Minnesota Department of Human Services and the Minnesota Judicial Branch, is working to make that dream a reality by ensuring appropriate secondary education planning for youth.
Justice Lorie S. Gildea
One youth, whom we will call Sarah, was in and out of the foster care system since she was six months old. Yet Sarah persevered, despite the odds stacked against her. She gained admission to college, earned a music scholarship, worked at a grocery store, and with a little help from the state along the way, graduated. We want to help more foster youth like her.
While our goal has always been and will ... |
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The tale of 'Elevate Chicago' and foreclosure blight in the neighborhoods
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19.5.2013 |
Chicago Tribune: Opinion |
| The tale of 'Elevate Chicago' and foreclosure blight in the neighborhoods |
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18.5.2013 |
Durango Herald |
| Meetings and EventsDurango Farmers Market, 8 a.m.-noon, First National Bank parking lot, www.durangofarmersmarket.org.La Plata Conservation District outreach informational booth for youth and landowners, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Breen Community Center, 15300 Colorado Highway 140 in Breen, wwww.laplatacd.org,... |
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Victoria station murder term cut
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15.5.2013 |
BBC: Front Page |
| A teenage boy who was convicted of murdering a schoolboy in Victoria Station has his sentence's minimum term reduced. |
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Measuring life quality: the Boston Indicators Project
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13.5.2013 |
Switchboard, from NRDC |
| Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC:
For the past several years, the Boston Foundation has been collecting data on key indicators of the health of the city’s economic, social, and natural environment. The Boston Indicators Project surveys ten key categories relevant to quality of life:... |
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San Mateo: Ice Center supporters rally to save rink at Bridgepointe Shopping Center
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12.5.2013 |
San Jose Mercury News: News |
| With a few weeks until the Ice Center is closed to make room for retail stores, hockey players and other supporters held a rally, hoping to spur the city to take action. |
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"Greater mobility in Africa will aid development"
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11.5.2013 |
New Kerala: India News |
| Cape Town, South Africa, May 11 : Connecting the continent through infrastructure development and removing bottlenecks to greater mobility of people will allow Africans to work together towards the common goal of developing their continent, participants at the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Africa heard on Frday. |
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Soccer referee dead after punch
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6.5.2013 |
Durango Herald |
| MURRAY, Utah Ricardo Portillos daughters had begged him to stop refereeing in a soccer league because of the growing risk of violence from angry players.Now theyre faced with planning his funeral after he succumbed to injuries late Saturday that had put him in a coma for a week since a 17-year-old goalie punched him in the head. |
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Police: US soccer referee punched by player dies
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6.5.2013 |
Yahoo: US National |
| MURRAY, Utah (AP) — Ricardo Portillo's daughters had begged him to stop refereeing in a Hispanic soccer league because of the growing risk of violence from angry players. ... |
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Pakistan's women face battle for the right to vote
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4.5.2013 |
The Guardian -- Front Page |
| Female activists plan to deploy protection teams to polling stations in forthcoming elections
Fears over the safety of women voting in next week's elections in Pakistan are rising after letters have been circulated in regions of the country warning men not to allow their wives, sisters and daughters out to the polling stations.
In an increasingly fraught and violent runup to the 11 May vote, leaflets are appearing stating that it is "un-Islamic" for women to participate in democracy.
Now a group of young female activists are planning to challenge what they call the government's inability to protect women's right to vote by organising their own protection teams at individual polling stations in tense and volatile Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, one of the four provinces of Pakistan, formerly known as the North West Frontier Province.
In what is being called Pakistan's youth election – almost a third of the electorate is between 18 and 29 – a growing tide of young women are determined to overcome ... |
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Cindy Montañez in City Council District 6
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1.5.2013 |
LA Times: Opinion |
Her deep knowledge of state and city government would serve her well on the City Council.
Endorsement: Her deep knowledge of state and city government would serve her well on the City Council. |
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MMR jab plea ahead of Urdd festival
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25.4.2013 |
BBC: Front Page |
| Thousands of children and adults attending the Urdd Eisteddfod in Pembrokeshire are urged to make sure they have had measles vaccinations, as cases in the Swansea epidemic rise to 942. |
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N.H. construction firm to build Job Corps center
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25.4.2013 |
Boston Globe: New Hampshire |
| N.H. construction firm to build Job Corps center |
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NH construction firm to build Job Corps center
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24.4.2013 |
Boston Globe: New Hampshire |
| NH construction firm to build Job Corps center |
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IHT Rendezvous: In China, the Shared Grief of Losing a Single Child Like Lu Lingzi
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21.4.2013 |
NY Times: World |
| With the loss of their daughter, the parents of Lu Lingzi have joined a growing group in China – parents who have lost a single child, in a country that mandates a one-child policy for many. |
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One dead in Guinea election protests: government spokesman
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19.4.2013 |
Yahoo: Top Stories |
| CONAKRY (Reuters) - One man has died from wounds suffered during clashes in the Guinean capital of Conakry between security forces and demonstrators protesting against preparations for a long-delayed parliamentary election, a government spokesman said on Friday. Damantang Albert Camara said more than 15 others were wounded, including four from gunshots, during Thursday's protests sparked by President Alpha Conde's decision last week to fix June 30 as the date for the ballot. ... |
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How plan for simple gay wedding is shaking up lives, state
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19.4.2013 |
Seattle Times: Local |
| Two gay men who have led quiet lives in the Tri-Cities area are now at the center of legal actions against Arlene’s Flowers, whose owner wouldn’t provide a floral arrangement for their September wedding. |
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Brazil official: World Cup, Olympics will be safe
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17.4.2013 |
Yahoo: Top Stories |
| RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian officials said Tuesday they were closely following the investigation into the explosions at the Boston Marathon as they consider whether to change security measures for next year's World Cup and the 2016 Olympics. ... |
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Lindsey Graham To Push Alternative Gun Bill
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11.4.2013 |
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com |
| WASHINGTON -- Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Wednesday that he’s planning to put forward an alternative gun bill when the Senate begins its debate this... |
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The Note: A Real Deal Emerges On Gun Control
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10.4.2013 |
Yahoo: Politics |
|  By MICHAEL FALCONE (@michaelpfalcone) NOTABLES SENATORS STRIKE A DEAL ON BACKGROUND CHECKS: A Senate aide tells ABC’s GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS that Sens. Joe Mancin, D-W. Va., and Pat Toomey, R-Pa., have reached deal to expand background checks to gun shows — all commercial sales. The deal...
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