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#Parents & #Parenting picks of the day:

➡️ @index - Blog of tips for parenting, food, travel

➡️ @index@philosophergrandma.blog - Grandmother's advice for grandparents

➡️ @index@antiparent.com - Parenting blog with alternative viewpoint emphasising societal support structures

➡️ @hello - Advice & news about elementary schools in US

➡️ @issy - Blog about homeschooling children in New Zealand

➡️ @dad - Blog by father of two girls in southern England

➡️ @thetoylibrary - Irish non-profit helping families donate & borrow toys

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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

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

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

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

Calling #ClassOf2026: If you or someone you know graduated high school this year, ProPublica reporters want to hear from you. We need your help understanding how the government’s immigration policies impacted your experience.

How to get in touch 👇

#HighSchool #Education #Parenting #Teachers #ICE #Immigration

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Book Recommendation For Everyone:

Invisible Women, Data Bias in a World Designed For Men

by Caroline Criso Perez

paraphrasing:
...so much data fails to take into account gender...and women pay tremendous costs for this insidious bias, in time, money, and often wtth their lives"

#Data #Books #Reading #Gender
#HumanRights #AI #Computing
#Coding #Mastodon #Fediverse
#Employment #Health #Business
#Finance #Software #Parenting

The AAU, one of the country's largest youth sports organizations, is failing on nearly every level to adequately protect children in its care from sexual abuse, a ProPublica and Washington Post investigation found.

https://www.propublica.org/article/aau-youth-sports-sexual-abuse-failure-amateur-athletic-union?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Sports #Basketball #Children #Parenting #Family #Kids

I wrote a poem, dedicated to all those "men" "too manly" to spend time with their #daughters.

"Sounds a bit gay, to be honest!"

https://yorkshiregeek.co.uk/posts/sounds-a-bit-gay-tbh/

#Dad #Father #Poetry #poem #Parenting #CreativeWriting #Men #Toxicmasculinity #masculinity

NEW: At some private schools across the U.S., every student uses taxpayer money to pay toward tuition, thanks to the growth of school voucher programs.

But these "quasi-public" schools face almost none of the scrutiny given to public schools.
https://www.propublica.org/article/private-schools-vouchers-wisconsin-atlas-preparatory?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Education #School #Wisconsin #Milwaukee #Parenting #Children

NEW: Despite being ruled “permanently ineligible” from coaching by SafeSport, a Texas girls volleyball coach has continued to run his club, posting hundreds of videos in which he works with players, supervises practices and is alone with teen girls.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ryan-richardson-pharr-texas-usa-volleyball-safesport-abuse-teens?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Sports #Children #Volleyball #Texas #Abuse #Parenting

Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
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The vitamin K shot, a lifesaving injection given to newborns to prevent uncontrollable bleeding of the brain and intestines, has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
https://www.propublica.org/article/more-parents-decline-vitamin-k-shot-newborns?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Parenting #Health #PublicHealth #Science #Medicine #Children

NEW: Citing ProPublica’s reporting, two lawmakers have called on the CDC to address a “preventable public health crisis” of parents refusing the vitamin K shot for their newborns — which has led to babies suffering uncontrollable bleeding and even dying.
https://www.propublica.org/article/vitamin-k-cdc-rfk-jr-lawmakers-letter?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Health #PublicHealth #Congress #Children #Parenting #CDC #RFKJr

NEW: After ProPublica contacted leading vaccine skeptic Dr. Joseph Mercola for an article on babies dying after parents turned down vitamin K shots, he publicly reversed his long-held stance that the shots weren't needed.

“The data is clear: vitamin K saves lives,” he wrote.
https://www.propublica.org/article/vitamin-k-shot-joseph-mercola-reversal-babies?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Health #PublicHealth #Children #Medicine #Vaccines #Parenting

NEW: For decades, Idaho laws have allowed parents who belong to the Followers of Christ and other faith-healing sects to pray rather than seek medical care.

Since 2015, at least 15 children have died of treatable conditions.
https://www.propublica.org/article/faith-healing-idaho-deaths-followers-of-christ?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Idaho #Law #Children #Religion #Health #Medicine #Parenting

This Private School Had Students Scrub Floors and Attack a Fellow Classmate. The State Still Funds It.
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Despite multiple complaints — and videos — of physical abuse and mistreatment of students, Arkansas' Delta Institute continues to receive public funds. It is just one of hundreds of private schools taking state money with little oversight.
https://www.propublica.org/article/arksansas-private-schools-vouchers-delta-institute-developing-brain-autism-harm?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Arkansas #Education #School #Children #Parenting #Teaching

NEW: In Idaho, prosecutors can't file neglect or manslaughter charges against parents who say their faith prohibited giving lifesaving medical care to their children.

Until the early 1970s, that wasn’t the case.
https://www.propublica.org/article/idaho-law-faith-healing-exemption?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Idaho #Parenting #Children #Health #History #Medicine #Law

A woman who sexually abused a minor. Boxer Mike Tyson, who served time for rape. Both of these people successfully launched private schools that collected public money.

As the voucher system grows more popular, few states have guardrails in place.
https://www.propublica.org/article/private-schools-vouchers-growth-florida-arizona-west-virginia?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Education #School #Parenting #Teaching #Children #Florida #Arizona

Last year, the Texas education board rejected Alpha School’s pitch to open a charter amid concerns about its AI-driven curriculum.

But now Alpha’s private school campuses are set to benefit from the state’s new voucher program.
https://www.propublica.org/article/alpha-school-texas-vouchers-ai?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Texas #TX #Education #School #Students #Parenting #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

NEW: To give voucher programs a toehold in state legislatures, politicians touted how students with disabilities would gain access to private education.

But those students’ families often have the hardest time finding schools that will accept them.
https://www.propublica.org/article/school-vouchers-disabilities?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #School #Education #Disability #Accessibility #Students #Children #Parenting

NEW: Gov. Greg Abbott spent years trying to make school vouchers a reality in Texas, even pushing to unseat rural Republicans who stood in the way.

Some lawmakers believe the effort contributed to his party's historic demise in the midterms.

#News #Texas #TX #Education #Congress #TXPol #USPolitics #Schools #Teaching #Parenting

https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-school-vouchers-gina-hinojosa?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

NEW: As more parents reject a long-standard shot for babies, hospitals are seeing cases of vitamin K deficiency bleeding — once considered virtually eliminated.

Doctors don’t always recognize or know how to treat the life-threatening condition.
https://www.propublica.org/article/vitamin-k-shot-texas-lonestar-emergency-room-nicole-malouf?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Hospital #Medicine #Parenting #Health #PublicHealth #Texas #Emergency

https://www.europesays.com/3266155/ White House plan to subsidize stay-at-home parents divides conservatives #conservatives #family #funding #NorthAmerica #ohio #parenting #parents #StayAtHome #subsidy #TheWhiteHouse #TrumpAdministration

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