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Children's long-term development and health are significantly impacted by immigration enforcement and the imminent danger of deportation. Detention or deportation in particular can cause toxic stress, which can impair brain development and raise the likelihood of mental health conditions like PTSD, sadness, and anxiety.
Education promotes economic growth, national productivity and innovation, and values of democracy and social cohesion. [75] Prevention through education has been seen to discourage delinquency for minors and help them strengthen the connection and understanding between peers [76] A well-known intervention treatment is the Scared Straight ...
Unequal access to education in the United States results in unequal outcomes for students. Disparities in academic access among students in the United States are the result of multiple factors including government policies, school choice, family wealth, parenting style, implicit bias towards students' race or ethnicity, and the resources available to students and their schools.
The act required that states holding youth within adult prisons for status offenses remove them within a span of two years (this timeframe was adjusted over time). The act also provided program grants to states, based on their youth populations, and created the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP).
A student in Pennsylvania was taken into custody Monday after a school shooting threat caused the district to cancel all classes, WHTM-TV reported. In Florida, arrests were made in two school ...
A 2011 study of nearly 1 million Texas students found that nearly 60% of students were suspended or expelled at least once between grades 7 and 12." [2] In 2012, Texas changed the law such that students could no longer be charged with "disrupting class" and no student younger than 12 years could be charged with a "low-level misdemeanor at ...
Student rights in United States higher education are accorded by bills or laws (e.g. the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Higher Education Act of 1965) and executive orders. These have been proceduralized by the courts to varying degrees.
Replaced the Adult Education Act and the National Literacy Act. Pub. L. 105–220 (text) 1998 Higher Education Amendments of 1998 Pub. L. 105–244 (text) 1998 Charter School Expansion Act of 1998: Amended the Elementary and Secondary Education Act to make charter schools eligible for federal funding. Pub. L. 105–278 (text) 1998