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Social Innovation Grants Help Improve Youth Reentry Outcomes

A Corp. for Nat'l & Community Service youth services grantee has won new funding under the federal government's Social Innovation Fund that helps provide investor support for successful programs. UTEC Inc, which provides programming for street and disconnected youth, has been selected as ...

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$1.3 Million in New AmeriCorps Funding to Support Flint

The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) distributes $1.3 million in grants to place additional AmeriCorps members available to help local efforts addressing the water emergency in Flint, MI. Beginning in May, additional AmeriCorps NCCC teams will arrive in Flint. One will supp...

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Despite Funding, Gaps Exist in K-12 School Emergency Planning

Federal agencies charged with safeguarding the K-12 school campus have done a poor job, taking a piecemeal approach and failing to build adequate collaboration between federal agencies and local officials, according to the latest Government Accountability Office report. The Departments of Educat...

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Juvenile Justice Advocates Urge Increase Funding for AT-Rick Youth Programs

Juvenile justice advocates urge Congress to adopt several pending bills that would expand funding for community-based services for justice-involved youth and increase education and workforce development opportunities for currently and formerly incarcerated youths. The Center for Law and Social...

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DoEd Releases Proposals of ESSA Negotiated Rulemaking Committee

The Education Dept. (DoEd) releases a series of proposals for consideration by negotiators who are discussing implementation of the new Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), the federal law that directs both education policy and federal funding of K-12 education. DoEd sent proposals to the commi...

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Advocates Urge Senate Passage of New Child Nutrition Bill Update

Advocates remain hopeful the full Senate will take up bipartisan legislation to reauthorize child nutrition program, the Improving Child Nutrition Integrity and Access Act of 2016, soon. The bill would update the USDA $5 billion child nutrition programs and passed the Senate Agriculture Committe...

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Spending Plan Would Make Significant Budget Cuts

The House Republican FY 2017 budget plan, which could come to the House floor soon, would make significant cuts to children and youth programs important to CYF readers, according to a new Center on Budget and Policy Priorities analysis. The GOP budget flies directly in the face of statements ma...

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State and Local Funding News from Around the Nation

Arizona $16M Goes for Education, Scholarships, Health Innovation: The Arizona Community Foundation distributes more than $16 million in grants and scholarships in support of quality education, health innovation, community improvement and development, the environment and sustainability, and arts and...

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Important Research from Around the Country

Homeless Children Lack Access to Child Care: The National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth releases a state guide on strategies to reduce youth homelessness. The authors recommend that states help train childcare providers and establish a grace period that would allow hom...

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DoEd Closing Four Regional Literacy Centers, Opens National Hub

The Education Dept. (DoEd) is closing the four regional Literacy Information and Communication System (LINCS) training centers and will replace them with a single national hub to provide professional development assistance. The new LINCS Professional Development (PD) Center will replace the fo...

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