No Child Left Behind Due for a Change
Education: States Should Do More To Reach Students
POSTED: 7:48 am CST February 1, 2012
MIAMI (AP) -- In its initial review of No Child Left Behind waiver requests, the U.S. Education Department highlighted a similar weakness in nearly every application: States did not do enough to ensure schools would be held accountable for the performance of all students.
The Obama administration praised the states for their high academic standards. But nearly every application was criticized for being loose about setting high goals and, when necessary, interventions for all student groups - including minorities, the disabled and low-income - or for failing to create sufficient incentives to close the achievement gap.
Under No Child Left Behind, schools where even one group of students falls behind are considered out of compliance and subject to interventions. The law has been championed for helping shed light on education inequalities, but most now agree it is due for change.
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Give Kids a Smile Provides Dental Care to Underserved Children and Adolescents
February is National Children's Dental Health Month, ADA's National 'Give Kids a Smile(R)' Kicks Off 10th Anniversary Celebration
By Lydia Hall
CHICAGO, Feb 1, 2012 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- The American Dental Association (ADA) shines a light on dental health for children during February, marking the 10th anniversary of its Give Kids A Smile program as well as its annual National Children's Dental Health Month.
A decade of mobilizing dental volunteers
The ADA's national Give Kids A Smile(R) program kicks off Friday, Feb. 3, with dental professionals across the nation mobilizing to provide free dental care to approximately 450,000 children and adolescents from underserved families throughout year.
Give Kids A Smile is the ADA's signature oral health access program designed to encourage parents, health professionals and policymakers to address the year-round need for oral health care for all children. Each year, thousands of the nation's dentists and their dental team members provide free oral health care services to children from low-income families across the country.
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CLC Statement on State of the Union
Children’s Leadership Council Urges President and Congress to Renew
Focus on Children Following State of the Union Address
(Washington DC) January 24, 2012 -- We applaud President Obama’s commitment to strengthening jobs here at home and continuing to grow our economy, both of which bolster American families.
However, with more than 16 million American children living in poverty today, we are dismayed that the well-being of this nation’s children was not central to the State of the Union Address.
In 2012, we call on the President and Congress to put aside bipartisanship for the sake of the nation’s children.
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FRAC Call to Action
From our friends at the Food Research and Action Center:
Take Action: Urge Your House Member to Sign Letter to House Ag Committee Protecting SNAP and Other Nutrition Programs.
Now that the Super Committee has failed to reach an agreement on deficit reduction, action shifts to the House and Senate Agriculture Committees to develop a Farm Bill. Reps. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) and James McGovern (D-MA) are circulating a Dear Colleague letter urging the House Agriculture Committee to protect SNAP and other low-income nutrition programs as it considers options for the next farm bill.
Urge your House Member to support SNAP and nutrition programs by signing the letter by Friday, December 9, COB. Click here to view the letter.
(Click here) to view a recent letter signed by 127 House Members urging the Super Committee to protect SNAP and other low-income safety net programs from budget cuts.
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Invitation from Generations United
How is the economy affecting the growth of multigenerational households? Find out December 6, 2011 when Generations United issues its second annual “Signature Report.”
Register Today
On December 6th, Generations United will be hosting an event at the National Press Club (529 14th Street NW, 13th Floor, Washington, DC) to release our second annual signature report, Family Matters: Multigenerational Families in a Volatile Economy.
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Poor Economy Leads to Surge in Free School Meals
Lines Grow Long for Free School Meals, Thanks to Economy
By SAM DILLON
Published: November 29, 2011
NY Times
Millions of American schoolchildren are receiving free or low-cost meals for the first time as their parents, many once solidly middle class, have lost jobs or homes during the economic crisis, qualifying their families for the decades-old safety-net program.
The number of students receiving subsidized lunches rose to 21 million last school year from 18 million in 2006-7, a 17 percent increase, according to an analysis by The New York Times of data from the Department of Agriculture, which administers the meals program. Eleven states, including Florida, Nevada, New Jersey and Tennessee, had four-year increases of 25 percent or more, huge shifts in a vast program long characterized by incremental growth.
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Gingrich gives view of US child labor laws
Newt Gingrich: Child labor laws 'truly stupid'
By Kim Geiger
November 21, 2011, 12:29 p.m.
Promising “extraordinarily radical proposals to fundamentally change the culture of poverty in America,” Newt Gingrich said Friday that he would fire school janitors and pay students to clean schools instead.
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CLC Statement on Super Committee
CHILDREN’S LEADERSHIP COUNCIL GIVES SUPER COMMITTEE REPORT AN “F”
IRRESPONSIBLE INACTION PLACES CHILDREN IN JEOPARDY
WASHINGTON, DC – November 23, 2011 – The Children’s Leadership Council today gave the Congressional Super Committee an “F” for its failure to reach a compromise that would balance additional revenues with spending cuts to address the nation’s deficit and sustain basic health and social needs and other essential services for America’s children, youth and families
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CLC Statement on Child Poverty
CHILDREN'S LEADERSHIP COUNCIL DECRIES 'DISGRACEFUL" CONTINUING TREND OF HIGH CHILD POVERTY RATE IN U.S.
20% OF CHILDREN LIVING IN POVERTY UNACCEPTABLE IN AMERICA
WASHINGTON, DC – Sept. 13, 2011 – The Children's Leadership Council today decried the continued rise in the child poverty rate in the United States, calling it "unacceptable in America."
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Senate blocks vote on "Teachers and First Responders Back to Work Act"
From Roll Call:
Senate Blocks Two Parts of Obama's Jobs Bill
By Humberto Sanchez
Roll Call Staff
Oct. 21, 2011, 1:42 a.m.
Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell criticized a provision of the president's jobs measure that would have provided $35 billion to save teaching and first responder jobs Thursday, saying a millionaire's tax to pay for it would hurt small businesses. The Senate rejected the proposal Thursday night.
Two elements of President Barack Obama's jobs bill failed on procedural votes when Senators tried to move them as individual measures late Thursday. The chamber then plunged ahead on a long series of votes on amendments to a package of three appropriations bills before advancing the measure, setting up a vote on passage for the week of Oct. 31.
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