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Appleseed in the News |
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Housing fit for living |
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National Appleseed
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By SuperUser Account on
12/16/2006
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Alabama has many housing units in unfit condition. Often, poor tenants are at the mercy of landlords, who aren't required by state law to maintain their rental property in habitable condition, with working electrical, heating and plumbing systems and roofs that don't leak. The landlord-tenant bill proposed for Alabama would define the rights and responsibilities of both tenants and landlords.
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District's HIV Testing Found to Be Falling Short |
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District of Columbia
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By SuperUser Account on
12/16/2006
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A citywide HIV testing campaign, launched with bold pronouncements that brought the District national attention, has been hampered by poor planning and wasted resources in its first six months, according to a report released today by a public advocacy organization.
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Judge Steps Down to Head Pro Bono Group |
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National Appleseed
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By SuperUser Account on
11/12/2006
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Judge Sharon Nelson Hill has ended her 8-year tenure at the Fulton County Juvenile Court to become the first executive director of the Georgia Appleseed Center.The office Hill will run is the 18th branch of the Appleseed Foundation, which coordinates pro bono work and develops programs to target specific needs in communities
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Opinion: Ordinary parental involvement won't cut it |
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Georgia
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By SuperUser Account on
10/3/2006
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We Georgians can disagree about many issues when it comes to public education, but on one crucial point we can all unite: If we want to transform public education in Georgia, "It Takes a Parent." That is the name of the new national Appleseed Report, the only one of its kind, released last week, that investigates how the No Child Left Behind Act looks to parent involvement as a central strategy to promote student academic achievement.
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Report: 9,369 workers in state on Medicaid |
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Nebraska
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By SuperUser Account on
10/1/2006
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Nebraska taxpayers paid health care costs last year for nearly 10,000 workers employed by some of the state's biggest businesses. At least 9,369 workers and an unknown number of their dependents received benefits through Medicaid, the taxpayer-financed health care system for the poor.
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Parent involvement in NCLB school standards is found lacking |
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Georgia
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By SuperUser Account on
9/27/2006
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Parent involvement in NCLB school standards is found lacking Inadequate parental involvement is hindering fulfillment of the federal No Child Left Behind program's goal to improve the nation's schools and produce better students, a two-year research project by an independent nonprofit has found. In a report released today called "It Takes a Parent," the Appleseed Foundation concludes that too many parents don't learn NCLB-required data about their children and schools soon enough to make timely and informed decisions; that poverty as well as language and cultural differences impose barriers to parental involvement; and that such participation "is not uniformly valued by school leaders as a key accountability strategy." To counter such trends, Appleseed is calling for better quality of information, active engagement of parents, community support, and professional development.
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