#parent | #kids | #teacher | Are California’s teachers’ strikes part of a coordinated ‘wave’? Not exactly

They struck in Los Angeles. They are striking in Oakland. Soon public school teachers could be striking in Madera County, Sacramento and other communities, seeking not only better pay but smaller class sizes and curbed expansion of charter schools. The labor unrest in K-12 classrooms leaves the impression that California…

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#parent | #kids | #schoolsafety | Va. school leaders enter agreement to resolve Federal civil rights complaint

According to the OCR’s case processing manual, investigations may be resolved at any time when the recipient, in this case Bedford County Public Schools, expresses an interest in resolving the allegations and OCR determines that it is appropriate to resolve them because the investigation “has identified issues that can be…

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#parent | #kids | #missingkids | Amber Alert: 3-year-old found after mom’s ex-girlfriend threatened to kill him: Police

HOUSTON, TEXAS (KTRK) — A boy and his mother were found safe after disappearing Monday afternoon.Police say 3-year-old Clayber Victor Larosa-Reyes was taken by his mother’s ex-girlfriend at Gessner Rd. and Bellaire Blvd. Authorities say 26-year-old Ingrid Urbina-Centeno took Clayber at 12:15 p.m. Urbina-Centeno is the ex-girlfriend of the child’s…

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#parent | #kids | #students | #parents | Students wanted to win water-gun fight — so they hacked thousands of records, school says

But officials in their Pennsylvania school district say they took a senior-year tradition way too far, hacking into test scores and personal information of the district’s more than 12,000 students while trying to get the home addresses they say they wanted for a tactical edge. Downingtown Area School District is…

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#parent | #kids | #childabuse | LAPD vows to audit 4,000 cases of serious child abuse not investigated since 2018 – Daily News

The top commander of the Los Angeles Police Department’s juvenile detectives faced tough questioning from L.A. County commissioners Monday, a day after revelations that thousands of cases of serious child abuse in the city were not investigated over roughly the past year-and-a-half. Capt. Paul Espinosa, chief of the LAPD’s Juvenile…

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