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Children left behind in Alabama鈥檚 Black Belt region deserve more than education tax credits their families can鈥檛 use. An 人兽性交 advocate wants lawmakers to look 鈥渆ndemic poverty鈥� in the face.
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The 人兽性交 represented six students in a Gulf Coast school system where minor rules violations resulted in long-term suspensions. Now, new procedures are making a big difference.
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A former guard tells about her experience working at a Hattiesburg, Miss., juvenile detention facility and why she leaked videotapes showing violence against children held there.
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New DOE data shows that black children are far more likely to be suspended and expelled from school than their white peers. We must reform 鈥渮ero tolerance鈥� school policies that push children out of school.
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Kelly Fischer faced discrimination in New Orleans when she tried to find a school for her blind, autistic son. She became a plaintiff in an 人兽性交 suit filed to ensure the city鈥檚 public schools comply with federal law by providing students with disabilities the educational services they need.
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Children at a juvenile detention facility in Mississippi continue to face abuse and neglect despite a court agreement requiring broad reforms, prompting the 人兽性交 today to ask a federal judge to hold officials in Hinds County in contempt.
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The 人兽性交 and other civil rights groups are asking the Justice Department to investigate school districts where immigrant children were turned away because of their limited English proficiency, age or national origin.
Two North Carolina school districts discriminated against immigrant children by denying, delaying or discouraging their enrollment, incidents that appeared to be symptomatic of a larger problem in school districts across the state. The 人兽性交 filed a federal civil rights complaint on behalf of two children who encountered discrimination by school officials.
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The law is touted as a way to provide 鈥渟chool choice,鈥� but in reality it discriminates against many impoverished families that don鈥檛 have the means to send children to distant public schools or expensive private academies.
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Finally, our politicians are waking up to the fact that our children need a helping hand, not a pair of handcuffs.聽They鈥檝e recognized the devastating consequences of the lunacy that has gripped our schools: the idea that children should be tossed out of school and, quite often, into jail for typical adolescent misbehavior.
