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He Was Fired for Sexually Harassing Students. California Allowed Him to Keep Teaching Anyway.
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Math teacher Jason Agan was deemed “unfit to teach.” But the finding was never made public. This is how the state allowed him — and dozens of other educators found to have committed sexual harassment or misconduct — to keep their credentials.
https://www.propublica.org/article/california-fired-teacher-sexual-harassment?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #California #SexualHarassment #Students #Teachers #Teaching #Education #Parents #Parenting #Children #SanFrancisco #BayArea #SF

A Minnesota senator wants to strengthen the state’s mandatory reporting laws, after a Minnesota Star Tribune-ProPublica investigation found that the leaders of a Duluth church failed to report a child sex predator for years.
https://www.propublica.org/article/minnesota-mandated-reporting-law-old-apostolic-lutheran-church?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Minnesota #Church #Religion #Abuse #Law #Children

Lab practices at the drug testing company Averhealth have been faulted by its own accreditor, and the company has been targeted in lawsuits and dropped by two child welfare agencies, a ProPublica investigation found.

https://www.propublica.org/article/averhealth-drug-testing-child-welfare-michigan?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Family #Children #Research #Testing #Law #Michigan

Kennedy’s vaccine committee voted to change the children’s recommended vaccine schedule today—

voting 8-3 to no longer recommend children under four years old get the MMRV (measles, mumps, rubella, varicella) vaccine (😳)

The committee will vote tomorrow on its hepatitis B vaccine recommendation changes. It will also recommend who should be eligible for the latest #COVID vaccine.

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#ICYMI #USA #US #rfkjr #PublicHealth #health #children #vaccines #COVID19
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https://www.npr.org/2025/09/18/nx-s1-5542082/cdc-acip-vaccine-hepatitis-b-mmrv

NEW: The owner of a private school in Arkansas ordered students to scrub floors and urged them to attack a classmate. Few records exist of the incident.

Reporter Jennifer Smith Richards pieced together what happened.
https://www.propublica.org/article/arkansas-private-school-abuse-video?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Arkansas #School #Education #Children #Violence #Trauma #Parenting

Tiny footprints. A blue blanket.

The autopsy reports of babies who died after not receiving a vitamin K shot at birth included heartbreaking details about how small the babies were — and what items they had with them when they died.
https://www.propublica.org/article/vitamin-k-baby-autopsy-reports?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Health #PublicHealth #Medicine #Children #Family #Parenting #Parents

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.
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Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of public schools as we know them.
https://www.propublica.org/article/education-department-public-schools-activists-linda-mcmahon-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Education #Public #Schools #Teaching #Family #Children

Cutting federal funding. Weakening civil rights protections. Injecting God into the classroom.

Here are some of the ways Trump’s Department of Education could upend public schools.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-department-of-education-changing-public-schools?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Education #Trump #School #Teaching #Parents #Family #Children

Why are Bicycling Monterey and many other #California #bike / #ActiveTransportation advocates (https://www.calbike.org/about_us/who_we_are/local_partners/) members of the California Bicycle Coalition aka #CalBike?

See ED Kendra Ramsey’s msg below.

To help make our streets better, join, renew, or donate to CalBike: https://www.calbike.org/join/

#ActOnClimate #transportation #mobility #PublicSafety #PublicHealth #CommunityBuilding #roads #children #elders #mobility #pollution #cycling #biking #BikeTooter #ClimateJustice #streets #OurStreets

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Her Parenting Time Was Restricted After a Positive Drug Test. By Federal Standards, It Would've Been Negative.
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Child welfare systems vary widely in what they count as a positive drug test. One state’s level is so low that Air Force pilots can fly with up to 400 times more opiates in their system.
https://www.propublica.org/article/drug-testing-thresholds-child-welfare?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Health #Hospital #Drugs #Testing #Parenting #Family #Children

When Alice Gooblar-Perovic, Aahana Gupta, and Lydia Cruce were freshmen at Iowa City West High School, they learned that thousands of books, including "The Handmaid's Tale" and "Nineteen Minutes," were going to be pulled from classrooms across their state. This was in order to comply with Senate File 496, which said books and school materials must be "age appropriate." So they started a Banned Book Club. Two years later, the club is still going and growing, and the law is in trouble — the part of it that affected school libraries was temporarily blocked by a federal judge, while enforcement of book restrictions remains frozen under a second temporary injunction. @npr's Iowa Public Radio spoke with the three girls, who are now juniors, about how their goals have changed, and the community they've built.

https://flip.it/1vgO9k

#Books @bookstodon #BookBans #Iowa #TheKidsAreAlright #HighSchool #Children

WATCH: More than 80% of U.S. children attend public schools.

Some of the Education Department’s ultraconservative advisers, led by Secretary Linda McMahon, want to change that.

Here’s an inside look at their dismantling of public education: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NYq_N6fO-w

#Documentary #Film #Journalism #Video #Education #Family #Children #Parenting #School

"Why more parents are riding cargo bikes, skipping the minivan” - report by
Jacob Fenston, #NationalPublicRadio - 6-minute audio with transcript

"It's such a better start to my day, that now there's truly not weather that I would rather drive in." https://www.npr.org/2025/10/18/nx-s1-5532087/why-some-parents-are-ditching-minivans-for-cargo-bikes

#NPR #CargoBikes #BikeToSchool #parents #children #BikeCommuter

Today, Congressional Democrats are spotlighting a particularly troubling part of Trump's immigration dragnet: the American kids — including some featured in ProPublica's reporting — who have been collateral damage in the deportation campaign.
https://www.propublica.org/article/american-kids-detained-trump-immigration-deportation-democrats-investigation?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Democrats #Immigration #Congress #Children #Immigrants #Deportation #Trump #ICE #DHS

“In my two decades as a reporter, I’ve sat at many kitchen tables with grieving mothers,” ProPublica reporter Megan Rose writes.

“Talking with Holly, though, was the first time I’d done so as a mother myself. Her sorrow hit me differently.”

https://www.propublica.org/article/tacrolimus-fda-death-mothers-story?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#Journalism #Media #Mother #Children #Family #Health #FDA #Medicine

After Sowing Distrust in Fluoridated Water, Kennedy and Skeptics Turn to Obstructing Other Fluoride Sources
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Florida and Utah have banned fluoridation, with multiple other states looking to do the same. Critics of fluoride in drinking water point to other fluoride sources as an alternative, but many are creating barriers to these very products.
https://www.propublica.org/article/fluoride-supplements-fda-rfk-jr-ken-paxton-restrictions?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #RFKJr #Health #Children #Family #Utah #Florida #Texas

More Than 100,000 American Kids Have Had a Parent Detained in Immigration Sweeps, Report Estimates
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Far more American children have likely been separated from their parents during immigration sweeps than previously understood, according to a new Brookings report.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-immigration-child-parent-separation-estimates-brookings?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Immigration #ICE #DHS #Children #Family #Data #Research

‼️ THIS IS AN EMERGENCY‼️

NOBODY IS DONATING TO HILEN @helynbasil ‼️

A 7-YEAR-OLD CHILD HAS BEEN IN AGONY FOR WEEKS, WITH NO SUPPORT COMING IN TO HELP‼️😭

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PLEASE HELP‼️

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#Gaza #Palestine #GazaMutualAid #sharetohelp #humanrights #GazaAid #savegaza #helpgaza #family #children #childrenofgaza

It’s been over a decade since Alaska significantly increased its funding for public education.

Two school districts are now suing the state for what they say is a long-running failure to give students a “sound basic education.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/alaska-public-education-funding-failure-lawsuit?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Alaska #Education #School #Law #Students #Lawsuit #Children #Family

An Idaho advisory panel is developing a bill to require autopsies in circumstances including unexplained child deaths.

The state would help fund autopsies for coroners who get national certification, to address underfunding and bolster standards.
https://www.propublica.org/article/idaho-coroner-system-legislation-impact?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Idaho #Death #Coroner #Forensics #Children #Family #Law

A KQED-ProPublica report revealed how a teacher was allowed to keep his credentials despite being fired for sexually harassing students.

His current school district has replaced him as it investigates at least two new student complaints.
https://www.propublica.org/article/redwood-city-teacher-sexual-harassment-investigation?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #California #BayArea #Children #Students #School #Teachers #Education #Parenting

9-year-old Maria Antonia was supposed to go to Disney World.

Instead, immigration agents sent her to Dilley, Texas.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-dilley-maria-antonia-guerra-story?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #ICE #Immigration #Detention #Immigrants #Children #Family #Disney

Three U.S. senators have called for an overhaul of federal agents’ use of tear gas and pepper spray, citing a ProPublica investigation that found at least 79 children were hurt by these chemicals during Trump’s immigration crackdown.

https://www.propublica.org/article/lawmakers-demand-reforms-tear-gas-children?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Congress #Law #Senate #ICE #Immigration #Protest #Children #Health

Tomorrow is the first day of #Ramadan in #Gaza 🌙
This is usually a month of joy, happiness, and prosperity in Gaza, but for the third year in a row, Gaza is losing its safety & joy, but thanks to your support and presence, this year will be more beautiful and easier for families and #children🥰.

Donate any amount you can now , and show some love 💕 Thank y'all.

https://chuffed.org/project/help-mai-and-the-gaza-camp-kids
#gazaverified #gazamutualaid #GazaNeedsHelp #Gazachildren #socialmedia #freepalestine

A Texas volleyball coach who was the subject of an investigation last month by ProPublica and The Washington Post is now facing a federal child exploitation probe, according to an agent for Homeland Security Investigations.
https://www.propublica.org/article/volleyball-coach-ryan-richardson-homeland-security-investigations-child-exploitation?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Texas #Volleyball #Children #Sports #Coach #Parenting #HomelandSecurity