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Virginia legislators are debating bills this week that would limit the role of school cops and prohibit charging K-12 students with “disorderly conduct” — a reaction to Center stories on unusually aggressive school policing there.
Kayleb Moon-Robinson was 11 years old last fall when charges — criminal charges — began piling up at school.
As the national debate over childhood inequities sharpens, recent developments in California highlight struggles over practices critics say deprive some kids of quality class time and fuel a “school-to-prison pipeline.”
New state legislation on discipline and truancy — along with lawsuits — are at the heart of these controversies in the Golden State.
To win asylum, or refugee status, even children have to go beyond simply proving that they’re being truthful about terrifying experiences.
410 minors applied for asylum in 2013. More then 1,500 applied during the first nine months of the 2014.
More than 20 national education and civil rights advocates sent a letter Monday to Department of Defense officials, urging them to stop giving U.S. school police departments anti-mine vehicles, military-grade firearms like M16s and even grenade launchers.
The nation’s second-largest school district — Los Angeles Unified — is unveiled a sweeping new agreement to curb police involvement in minor school discipline and campus problems.
Civil rights groups filed a federal complaint Tuesday challenging a Texas city’s ban on providing housing to “refugees” or foreigners such as the Central American children who’ve been turning themselves in at the border.
For years, researchers who study Central America have warned that organized crime was gaining strength.
Civil rights groups filed a federal complaint Tuesday challenging a Texas city’s ban on providing housing to “refugees” or foreigners such as the Central American children who’ve been turning themselves in at the border.