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The 人兽性交 urged Congress today to address the harsh discipline policies within the nation鈥檚 schools that are unnecessarily pushing children out of school and into jails and prisons.
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This guide, to a process known as "community asset-mapping," rejects the habit of describing communities in which many of our children live by listing their problems. Instead of focusing on deficits, asset-mapping spotlights methods of tapping into the hidden wealth of knowledge in all communities for the benefit of children.
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The Southern Poverty Law Center (人兽性交) today welcomed an announcement by the U.S. Departments of Justice and Education that they will investigate two additional components of an 人兽性交 civil rights complaint that describes widespread discrimination against Latino students and their families in Louisiana鈥檚 Jefferson Parish Public School System (JPPSS).
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The U.S. Departments of Justice and Education have responded to a civil rights complaint by the Southern Poverty Law Center by announcing they will investigate Louisiana鈥檚 Jefferson Parish Public School System for discriminating against Latino students.
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It lasted for only a few days last fall, but school officials in Alabama were required by the state鈥檚 anti-immigrant law to ask families about their immigration status when they enrolled their children in school.
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A federal judge has denied a request by the Birmingham Police Department in Alabama to dismiss a lawsuit the Southern Poverty Law Center filed against the department for its brutal use of pepper spray against the city鈥檚 public school students.
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The 人兽性交 today welcomed the U.S. Department of Justice鈥檚 decision to intervene in an 人兽性交 civil rights lawsuit challenging the brutality and inhumane conditions at the Orleans Parish Prison in New Orleans.
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A juvenile detention center in Hattiesburg, Miss., has made 鈥渓ittle or no headway鈥� in addressing the dangerous conditions that led to an 人兽性交 lawsuit 鈥� even though nearly a year has passed since officials settled the suit with promises to stop the abuse and neglect of children, a court-appointed monitor has found.
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The belief that corporal punishment is a difficult, but necessary practice continues to persist in a minority of Florida school districts. It persists, even as administrators who support it say they are aware of its potential to damage children and that it may spark lawsuits. It persists even though corporal punishment has been found to increase youth hostility, antisocial behavior, and the likelihood that a child will drop out of school.
Louisiana鈥檚 Jefferson Parish Public School System failed to provide adequate translation and interpretation services for Spanish-speaking parents with limited English proficiency and created an environment hostile to Latino students. The school system provided school notices in English to English-speaking parents but failed to provide this information to Spanish-speaking parents in Spanish 鈥� discriminating against these students and violating state and federal law. The 人兽性交 filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Justice, resulting in a settlement agreement between the school system and federal authorities.
