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Pa. Senate committee moves bills to safeguard social services programs
1+ hour, 28+ min ago (658+ words) Relentless anti-LGBTQ+ legislation driving a family out of state State senators advanced a trio of bills designed to protect Pennsylvanians who rely on state programs for healthcare, childcare and food assistance, respectively. Each bill passed unanimously Tuesday without any major…...
Advocates, elected officials urge hospitals to resume gender-affirming care for youth
2+ week, 4+ day ago (959+ words) Whiplash over remote access to abortion medication nationwide A group of more than 60 nonprofits, advocacy organizations and businesses wrote to two Wisconsin health systems Thursday, urging them to resume gender-affirming care for minors that they halted five months ago. The…...
Feels like erasure: Why Native American students may be undercounted by 90% in California schools
2+ week, 5+ day ago (900+ words) Whiplash over remote access to abortion medication nationwide Native American students who also identify as another race, such as Black, white or Asian, are counted as "two or more races," not Native American. When Celestina Castillo filled out the ethnicity…...
Youth court confidentiality should be included in special session, officials urge governor
4+ week, 10+ hour ago (467+ words) With the Voting Rights Act gutted, what's next for elections? Mississippi's youth court proceedings could grind to a halt and federal child welfare funding could be jeopardized come July if the Legislature does not revive one of the state laws…...
USM graduate becomes state's first higher education student to win national Coffman military history honor
2+ mon, 1+ day ago (265+ words) This is abhorrent: Chaos takes over debate of WV child abuse bill U. S. Army Capt. Travis Salley is the first person from a university or college in Mississippi'to win the Coffman Prize, a distinguished award in military history scholarship. The Society…...
House passes bill that eases zoning requirements for home-based child care programs
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (425+ words) This story was update on March 13 at 4: 21 p. m. to correct the spelling of Business and Industry Association CEO Michael Skelton's name. During Thursday's voting session, the New Hampshire House of Representatives voted to pass an amended version of a bill aimed…...
Senate Judiciary chairman does late night bill edit to push privatizing of WV foster care
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (748+ words) With three days left in the legislative session, the Senate Judiciary chairman isn't giving up on his idea to offload most of West Virginia's troubled foster care system to a private company. Sen. Tom Willis, R-Berkeley, put his bill mandating…...
Lawmakers decline to fund Morrisey's hallmark foster care idea to reduce children sent out of WV
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (726+ words) The governor's marquee foster care proposal, a "Bring Them Home Fund" to move hundreds of West Virginia foster children back in state, was left out of lawmakers' budget." "There was no appetite for it," House of Delegates Finance Chairman Vernon…...
If Kansas punishes schools for student walkouts, it will discourage free speech. Just as intended.
3+ mon, 1+ day ago (1136+ words) Billion Dollar Baby Bump In February 1969, more than 400 students at two high schools in Kansas City, Kansas, walked out of their classes to protest the lack of Black history courses. The students were from all-Black Sumner High School " the only…...
Billion Dollar Baby Bump
3+ mon, 3+ day ago (1669+ words) Since the 2022 Dobbs decision by the U. S. Supreme Court, state governments decide how they'll regulate abortion. This includes which organizations receive reproductive health funding." Crisis pregnancy centers, religiously affiliated organizations that advertise free pregnancy tests and ultrasounds but dissuade women from…...