#parent | #kids | #childabuse | Michael Jackson’s Accusers Using New California Child Abuse Sex Law To Fight Singer’s Estate

Wade Robson and James Safechuck are hoping to get another shot at a financial windfall from the estate of Michael Jackson and he’s citing a newly signed California law meant to support victims of childhood sexual assault. According to legal documents, obtained by The Blast, letters were filed with the…

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#parent | #kids | #teacher | Former middle school teacher arrested, charged with sexual battery and solicitation of student

Mark Hernandez, 52, a former Hamilton County Schools teacher, was arrested by the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office on Oct. 24 and is accused of sexual battery and solicitation of a student. On Oct. 14, an HCSO detective spoke with the victim, a 14-year-old Central High School student who attended Brown…

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#parent | #kids | #students | #parents | The Long Fight to Use Student IDs to Vote in North Carolina

When North Carolina’s Republican-controlled legislature passed the nation’s most suppressive state voting law in 2013, college students were among the most vocal opponents. They viewed it as discriminatory because it required voters to show identification at the polls but excluded student IDs from the acceptable forms. The law set off…

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#parent | #kids | #teacher | Love Thy Neighbor: Alumnus Making Mark as High School Teacher in Nashville

Chad Prather just happened to be back in Charlottesville on the night of Aug. 11, 2017. An annual presenter for the Jefferson Scholars Foundation Institute for Leadership and Citizenship, the former Jefferson Scholar was on the University of Virginia’s historic Lawn, eating fried chicken from one of his favorite local…

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