#parent | #kids | Ready to ‘clean up’: Ex-Fla. disaster chief to join Congress | #schoolshooting

The day after Jared Moskowitz won his House race in November, the National Emergency Management Association posted a congratulatory Twitter message that noted “he is the first State Emergency Management Director and NEMA Member elected to Congress.” “We look forward to working with him to advance emergency management!” the association…

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#parent | #kids | #cyberbullying | #cyberbully | Disengaged families leave children vulnerable to cyberbullying

The problems that children and youth have to deal with are numerous, from hunger, malnutrition, abuse and lack of education to lack of opportunities. However, one of the most uniquely challenging issues to tackle is the ever-rising presence of cyberbullying in our age of almost always online lives. And, according…

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#parent | #kids | Two Young Candidates Seek Laura Capps’s Vacant Seat on Santa Barbara School Board | #Education

It’s a troubled time to be entering Santa Barbara’s playground of public education. Whoever fills Laura Capps’s recently vacated seat on the Board of Education for the Santa Barbara Unified School District (SBUSD) will need to be prepared for the pressure.  Capps resigned from the position after being elected as…

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#parent | #kids | #childmolestor | Lake County Council puts together money needed for new sheriff’s department radios

CROWN POINT — The Lake County Council has pieced together the money needed to replace the outdated portable radios used by the sheriff’s department. The seven-member county financial management panel is expected to vote Tuesday to reallocate $1.66 million in federal American Rescue Plan Act funds originally set aside for…

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#parent | #kids | #schoolsafety | The playground death of a 7-year-old Bay Area boy spurred his parents to push for safety changes. They just won a victory

When Eric and Dayna Quanbeck lost their 7-year-old son in a horrific accident at his school in 2019, the San Francisco couple vowed to “channel their grief” into preventing any similar tragedies. Their son Alex was playing football with friends during recess at his San Rafael school when he tried……

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