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When Precious Hughes looked down the long, dark halls of Raines Elementary School in Jackson, Mississippi, she saw lights flickering, water spots staining the ceilings and paint chipping off the walls.
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Jordan Winder did not apply to the high school of his choice, because the dreadlocks he’s been growing nearly half his life are not allowed there.
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Tracy O’Connor drives her son to another school each day – just for geometry class – because his school does not offer it.
Tennessee’s voucher program threatened to siphon hundreds of millions of tax dollars from Nashville and Memphis public schools to private schools, raising the specter of more budget cuts for already underfunded public schools. The SPLC and its allies filed a...
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Kinsey Akers had to take the PSAT but was determined to make her voice heard at a public meeting on school safety that same day.
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Andre and his friend were taking turns on a cell phone, playing a video game called Last Day on Earth: Survival – about staying alive on a zombie-infested planet – when a real-life gunshot rang out.
In 2019, the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission violated Florida’s open meetings laws, effectively denying high school students and youth advocates the right to speak before the commission, which was created to investigate system failures in the 2018 school shooting at...
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At just 5 years old, C.C. was suspended from school for destroying property and disobeying her teachers.
Decades of research and experience have led to a consensus among mental health practitioners throughout the nation that intensive home- and community-based mental health services are much more effective and less expensive than institutionalizing children and youth who have ongoing mental health...
