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New child assistance agency seeks funding to replace old database
The new Department of Child Services is asking for an additional $27.6 million for fiscal year 2016 to keep up with growth and replace an antiquated database that keeps track...
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¡Ay Caramba!
When Huppenthal addressed the media yesterday to discuss the effects of illegal immigration on education spending, the Fourth Estate was quick to question the timing of the event and voice...
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Arizona law on third-grade reading mandate goes live
Even as many districts and individual schools have ramped up their instruction, this year’s implementation of a 2010 state law may mean an estimated 1,500 Arizona third-graders will be denied...
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Strains continue for Arizona child-welfare agency
Arizona’s child-welfare system continues to be strained by increases in reports of abuse and neglect and in placements of children in foster care even as the state makes progress in...
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Bill to ban children from truck beds resurfaces after three deaths in past months
While attempts to bar minors from riding unrestrained in pickup truck beds have failed for years at the Legislature, state leaders have three new reasons to act, a lawmaker said...
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Mother takes fight against kids in pickup truck beds to Capitol
[caption id="attachment_33367" align="alignleft" width="270" caption="Pam McClellan, a Glendale resident whose son died in 1991 when he was thrown from the bed of a pickup truck, Rep. Rick Gray, R-Sun City,...
