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07/19/12 - Wendy Lazarus: Dental Access Legislation Will Be a Boost for...
Along with the recent Supreme Court decision on federal health reform comes a challenge to all of us who care about improving the health of Americans, especially children.See it on Scoop.it, via...
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07/23/12 - Big Win For Parents In California: Failing School Takeover...
LOS ANGELES — The effort to have parents drive school reform received a substantial boost with a court ordering a San Bernardino County school district to accept a parent petition demanding changes at...
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07/22/12 - Robert D. Morrow: Poverty taking unfair toll on young | The...
"What does poverty have to do with child care? Plenty."See it on Scoop.it, via California Children's Policy
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07/20/12 - California’s innovative Paid Family Leave underutilized by...
SAN FRANCISCO (NAM) -- Janet Zamudio, a working mother of modest means, says the paid family leave she took soon after her third child, Maya, was born helped her feel “valued as a mother, as well as...
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08/03/12 - Child Labor: Small Hands Picking Our Food - NBC
Some children as young as 8 years old, reportedly, are working long hours in sweltering heat -- here in California.See it on Scoop.it, via California Children's Policy
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07/31/12 - Obese Central Valley children developing ailments of their...
High blood pressure, high cholesterol, heartburn -- these are not diseases of old age anymore. Doctors in the central San Joaquin Valley are diagnosing children and adolescents in growing numbers with...
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08/0512 - State heeds county woes - The Sacramento Bee
Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg of Sacramento and Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez of Los Angeles negotiated a deal to move Healthy Families kids into the more flexible – and potentially more...
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08/04/12 - Getting to the core of education - The Contra Costa Times
California, 45 other states and the District of Columbia have adopted the Common Core State Standards - the first-ever national framework that spells out what every public school student should know....
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In California, Students and Parents Prefer the New School Lunches - New...
10/18/12By a ratio of 3 to 1, public school students in California say the new healthy school meals being served up in California’s K-12 public schools are better than what they’ve had in the past,...
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California schools fare better under both Props 30 and 38 - 89.3 KPCC...
10/18/2012Bottom line: Prop 38 infuses more funds into K-through-12 and pre-school education. Prop 30supports a wider swath of educational institutions and public safety services. Neither solves all of...
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Climate Change Is Bad News for California Children with Asthma - Scientific...
Oct. 2012Higher temperatures and an increased risk of drought on the U.S. west coast result in nitrogen by-products that cause cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, especially among the region's...
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Editorial: Why is teachers union leaving money on the table? - The Sacramento...
10/30/12 At a time when California has cut funding dramatically for K-12 education – and may have to cut more after next week's election – it makes no sense for school districts to leave millions in...
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Capitol Alert: California has lowered number of medically uninsured children...
10/30/12California, the nation's most populous state, also has the nation's largest number of medically uninsured children, but has lowered that number sharply in recent years, according to a new study...
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In California schools' test scores, state sees success while feds' No Child...
10/19/12Even while more [California] schools are meeting state targets, more of them are missing federal ones. That's because the state measures year-to-year improvement in achievement, while the...
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Insurers Revive Child-Only Policies, But Cost Is Still An Issue - National...
10/23/12Since the health law was enacted, 22 states and the District of Columbia have passed laws or regulations that encouraged insurers to begin selling child-only policies again, a study found....
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Capitol Alert: California teacher unions rated as nation's 6th most powerful...
California's teacher unions - principally the huge California Teachers Association - are the nation's sixth strongest when it comes to raising money and influencing politics and educational policy,...
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LAUSD bracing for severe cuts if Prop. 30 loses - ContraCostaTimes.com
10/31/12Second-graders would miss lessons on prefixes and suffixes. U.S. history students would gloss over the civil rights movement.See it on Scoop.it, via California Children's Policy
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Without Workplace Justice, Parents Have No Good Options for Sick Kids -...
10/31/12The federal Family Medical Leave Act in theory enables many workers unpaid leave to attend to medical issues. But the narrow scope of the law leaves a large portion of the workforce uncovered,...
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Snacks Sold in School Include Many Fried, Sweet, Salty Options -Education Week
11/1/12In a new report, researchers at the Kid's Safe & Healthful Foods Project find that the majority of American children live in states where less-than-healthy snacks are readily available. And...
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Childhood obesity declines in several states, cities - USA Today
Several cities and states are trying to make their schools and communities healthier to reduce childhood obesity.See it on Scoop.it, via California Children's Policy
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Prop 35: Harsher Punishments For Human Trafficking Convicts - The Huffington...
10/23/12Prop 35 would increase fines and prison sentences for convicted human traffickers. It would also require them to register as sex offenders and disclose internet activities and identities.See it...
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Proposition 30 Puts California's Children First - The Huffington Post
11/06/12Will we choose to ensure our children get the education they deserve and invest in California's economic future? Or will we retreat from our commitment to each other and allow the worst cuts to...
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Children’s Health Hangs in Balance -HealthyCal.Org
11/12/12The health of nearly 1 million California children hangs in the balance this month as the state prepares to shift responsibility for their care to the troubled, cash-strapped Medi-Cal program...
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Student Discipline Laws, Though Weakened, Still Will Have an Impact -...
10/14/12Advocates for changing punitive school discipline policies that are disproportionately affecting African American and Latino students can claim at least a partial victory at the end of this...
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California, national shortage of primary care physicians will become more...
11/20/12A nationwide shortage is expected to grow more severe when an additional 2 million to 4 million Californians, and 32 million people nationally, obtain insurance in 2014 under the national...
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Health care reform: It lives! - The Sacramento Bee
11/20/12The law is expected to expand coverage to more than 4 million Californians who are going without insurance today.Half of those people will get coverage through Medi-Cal, the federal-state...
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Children in the fields: Young children picking our food -NBC Latino
11/20/12From the tobacco fields in North Carolina to the grape vineyards in California, thousands of children are working long hours in the filed, often in tough conditions, all to provide food on the...
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Editorial: Gov. Brown's new budget more reality-based
Opinion: Editorial: Gov. Brown's new budget more reality-based | billion, budget, tax, spending, fund, prop, year, increases, new, governorChildren's Defense Fund-California's insight:1/10/13 His top...
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Capitol Alert: State fiscal analyst says California budget 'roughly in...
Though the state still faces financial risks ahead, California's spending and revenues areChildren's Defense Fund-California's insight:1/14/13Among the biggest LAO criticisms has to do with Brown's...
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Early childhood funding stays flat in governor’s budget | EdSource Today
Children's Defense Fund-California's insight:1/11/2013Scott Moore, senior policy analyst for the advocacy group Preschool California, said not restoring the lost funding was a missed opportunity....
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