Last week, the National Juvenile Justice Network and the Texas Public Policy Foundation released a new report on the promising juvenile justice trends in a number of states. These nine comeback states have successfully reversed earlier trends and significantly reduced youth incarceration, all while maintaining public safety....
Coming in 8th – or how Nebraska’s KIDS COUNT rank doesn’t tell the whole story
The Annie E. Casey Foundation’s National KIDS COUNT Data Book was released on Monday. The Data Book provides policymakers and citizens with benchmarks of child well-being that in turn can enrich local, state, and national discussions concerning ways to secure better futures for all children. This book presents the latest trends in…...
Meet FERPA, the HIPAA of education records
Child welfare agencies across the country are responsible for the well-being of more than half a million children. Unfortunately, children and youth in foster care are the most educationally at-risk of all student populations. Due placement interruptions and the school transfers that tend to follow, only about 54% of foster…...
Breakfast Matters: Breakfast and Learning
When we think about children’s educational successes, there are a lot of factors that immediately come to mind. Things like teacher quality and a child’s own intellectual abilities are obvious ones. So it may come as a surprise to some that breakfast is another essential component to education. Facilitating and…...
Legislative Update: Sine Die 2013
A little more than a year ago, the Legislature’s “Session of Children” adjourned after lots of hard work and heated debate. As the 2013 Legislative Session drew to a close and more bills crossed the finish line, it is incredibly encouraging to see that the Legislature’s commitment to investing in children hasn’t…...
LB 22: Change parenting plan provisions related to the Parenting Act
As introduced: The Legislature finds that maximized parenting time with each parent protects children from harm to the father—child relationship and from harm due to parents’ conflicts, and, absent of evidence to the contrary, it is in a child’s best interest to have substantial, frequent, meaningful, and continuing parenting time…...
