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  • Domestic violence: Convictions are hard and the safety net has many holes

    June 06, 2018 |

    Burlington Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Burlington, Vermont

    Vermont lawmakers tried to make it easier for domestic violence victims to seek a special type of restraining order even if law enforcement does not have enough evidence to make an arrest. If it's granted the accused abuser cannot contact the victim or possess guns, but there are many holes in the system that make getting a permanent order more challenging. Resources are tight although one officer to work part-time in the State Attorney's office to create more uniform policies around the state.

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  • Could Vermont's new gun law have saved Anako Lumumba's life?

    June 06, 2018 |

    Burlington Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Burlington, Vermont

    Extreme risk protection orders can be effective in removing guns from dangerous people, but even though Vermont has such a law on the books, making it work effectively is difficult because it places most of the burden to prove the danger on the victim. Even if a risk protection order exists, law enforcement cannot take someone's guns if that person refuses unless they get a search warrant. The law's pitfalls were evident after the shooting death of a Burlington woman by her estranged partner.

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  • How an RCSD school raised its graduation rate by 20 points in three years with innovation

    June 05, 2018 |

    Rochester Democrat and Chronicle |

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    Response Location: United States, Rochester, New York

    East High High School in the Rochester City School District is three years into an Educational Partnership Organization (EPO) with the University of Rochester and has seen measures of success, most notably the fact that suspensions fell from 2,5000 in 2015 to 300 in 2018. Although there is still work to be done, success strategies include giving more autonomy to the principals and changing how unions and schools bargain with each other.

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  • Fostering Connections Between Young and Old

    June 05, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Mitchelville, Maryland

    Programs that promote interaction between young and old people benefit both groups emotionally. At a retirement community, Collington, music students perform for and interact with the residents in return for free room and board. Pop-up concerts and shared meals form friendships of the sort that research shows can reduce older adults' loneliness and increase their cognitive engagement. Young people gain in empathy, while both groups can make each other feel more needed. Programs responding to social isolation also bring children as young as infants into senior housing.

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  • A teacher prep program that really works? This one is successfully minting math and science educators

    June 04, 2018 |

    Chalkbeat National |

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    Response Location: United States, Houston, Texas

    Students who learn from a teacher who was trained through the UTeach program perform significantly better than those taught by other teachers in the same area. Started a decade ago at the University of Houston, UTeach aims to recruit the next crop of math and science teachers. By integrating lesson planning and teaching experiences into the major offerings, the model allows students to earn a teaching certificate alongside their degree.

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  • For anxious students, a teacher who comes to your house might be the answer

    June 04, 2018 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Farmington, Maine

    To serve students who have dropped out of high school for anxiety-related reasons such as bullying or unstable home circumstances, a program in central Maine is sending teachers to students' homes with personalized lessons. The rest of the week, students complete online assignments to make up for lost in-class time. The home-schooling model has its critics and faults, but instructors believe the targeted curriculum will be worth it over the long term.

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  • ‘The Police Aren't Just Getting You In Trouble. They Actually Care.'

    June 02, 2018 |

    Politico |

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    Response Location: United States, Gloucester, Massachusetts

    Police departments across eastern Massachusetts frustrated by the rising opioid epidemic decided to make themselves avenues to treatment rather than instruments of punishment. “It was pretty evident that we weren’t arresting our way out of anything.” The idea evolved into a national program called the Police-Assisted Addiction and Recovery Initiative with nearly 400 police departments helping thousands of people access drug treatment services across the country.

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  • San Francisco's new bot will downgrade marijuana crimes

    June 01, 2018 |

    Apolitical |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Writing laws to be machine-readable could have huge payoffs. San Francisco is designing a computer program to read through the city’s prosecution records and automatically downgrade applicable marijuana possession convictions from felonies to misdemeanors. Such a change became possible in 2014, but the downgrading process proved too expensive and complicated for most individuals to take on themselves. Software developers face hurdles that include needing to teach computers to read inconsistent language and paperwork formats.

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  • Colleges Are No Match for American Poverty

    May 30, 2018 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United States, Texas

    Journalist Marcella Bombardieri calls community college "one of America's largest and most important anti-poverty programs." The president of Amarillo College in Texas is testing just how far community colleges can go to fight systemic issues - day care, social workers, and emergency funds for students' daily expenses are part of his plan. Other administrators are looking on at the dramatic experiment with mixed views and takeaways.

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  • Why Egypt Is at the Forefront of Hepatitis C Treatment

    May 29, 2018 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: Egypt

    Egypt has made significant strides in eliminating hepatitis C from the country by implementing an approach that combines both affordable drug access and an effort to get the drugs to those in need. Supported by the government, the country "debuted an online portal for those with the disease to register for treatment," followed by a nationwide screening program.

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