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Opinion: City is Spinning Child-Welfare Stats
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‘ACS has retreated from reform and subjected more children to the enormous trauma of needless foster care.’
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Opinion: What the Data Says About Child Welfare in New York City
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‘In 2018, the number of children in foster care in New York City fell another 6 percent, while nationally the number of young people in foster care has steadily increased over the last few years.’
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Tragedy, Advocates, Pols Paved Way for Bid to Keep Detained Youth Closer to Home
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A report says complicated backstory of the city-state Close to Home program—and its early success–are a model for youth-justice systems around the country.
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Teachers Push De Blasio for Pre-K Pay Equity as New Era for System Approaches
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The de Blasio administration is moving to consolidate and expand its birth-to-five education programs. Will it take this opportunity to address a yawning gap between what city teachers and their nonprofit counterparts make?
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
CityViews: It’s Time to Provide Legal Help to Families Facing Child-Welfare Probes
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‘It’s time we recognize that the interests at stake for parents under ACS investigation are just as compelling, with consequences that can be just as grave, as in a criminal case.’
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New Push to Provide Legal Advice to Parents Facing Abuse and Neglect Investigations
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When facing the possible loss of their children, New York state parents have the right to a lawyer only when a case moves to court. Even then some counties fail to provide them. And many key decisions are made before a case ever gets to a judge.
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Listen: City Limits Reporter Discusses Abuse in Foster Care
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The number of foster-care cases in New York City has dropped substantially over recent years. But what has risen over the same period is the number of children who suffer abuse while in foster care.
JUSTICE
Challenge for City’s Child-Welfare System Overshadowed by De Blasio-Peters Feud
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ACS says it has a plan to deal with the rising incidence of abuse incidents involving kids in foster care. But making it work could prove to be a challenge.
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10th International Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Chromatography
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Mass Spectro Meet 2018 proudly announces the International Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Chromatography with a theme of “Exploring new dimension in analysis of Ionic, Physical and Chemical Separation”. The conference gives a global platform to analytical expertise, researchers, professors, scientific communities, delegates, students, business experts and executives from everywhere throughout the world to exchange ideas, knowledge and offer their important messages about the techniques of mass spectrometry and chromatography and can express their perspectives on development and improvement in the current scenario of various mass spectrometric and chromatographic separation techniques in the field of science and technology
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The Kids are Leaving Rikers. Is it Really a New Day for Juvenile Justice in NYC?
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Not so fast. With Raise the Age going into effect this week, the city’s 16- and 17-year-olds in custody are just moving from one jail to another.