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Hand over the cell |
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By SuperUser Account on
2/23/2007
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Edwin Darden, Appleseed's Education Policy Director, comments on new legal issues surrounding increased cell phone use among students.
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Schools strive for 'no parent left behind' |
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By SuperUser Account on
2/15/2007
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With schools increasingly held accountable for the performance of every student, the demand to partner with parents has intensified. School plays and fundraisers supported by moms, dads, and grandparents are still staples of American public schools. But in the spirit of "it takes a village," families now might find such activities paired with a workshop on test-prep or a briefing on how to read state accountability reports.
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Fenty's Surprising Pick for Attorney General |
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By SuperUser Account on
1/30/2007
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Linda Singer was not looking for a new job, she said. She was not even looking to practice law anymore. She was running a nonprofit group in the District, and for years, she had told the state of New York -- where she had been admitted to the bar -- that she was retired from the law, with no intention of practicing again.
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Housing fit for living |
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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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Judge Steps Down to Head Pro Bono Group |
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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: Pocketfuls of Fear |
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By SuperUser Account on
5/14/2006
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If a famous baseball player who will earn $4 million this season is relying on Money Mart rather than his corner bank, we cannot fairly expect the nation's other 20 million immigrants to do it any differently.
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Nonprofit Says Reaching Latinos Takes Creativity |
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By SuperUser Account on
3/10/2006
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Immigrants from Latin America are the nation's the fastest-growing group, but many banks are just now seeing demographic changes in their markets. It is those banks that Appleseed, a nonprofit policy organization in Washington, wants to educate. Last month it published a 39-page guide on how to market financial services to Hispanics.
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New Partnerships Created To Assist Hurricane Victims; |
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By SuperUser Account on
2/13/2006
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A lend-a-lawyer program unveiled by Texas Appleseed and the Texas Equal Access to Justice Foundation (TEAJF) in January will help legal aid programs provide those services to hurricane victims. A new fellow at Texas Appleseed will be responsible for coordinating the lend-a-lawyer program.
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