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Demand Safe Drinking Water In Schools ! TAKE ACTION !
Society & Culture  (tags: humans, safe drinking water, schools, children, environment )

Cher
- 22 days ago - change.org
Over the last decade, the drinking water at thousands of schools across the country has been found to contain unsafe levels of lead, pesticides and dozens of other toxins that put the nation's students at risk. Contaminants have surfaced at public and
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Ask the United Nations to End Violence in Schools ! TAKE ACTION !
Society & Culture  (tags: humans, children, violence, schools, protection, environment )

Cher
- 120 days ago - change.org
No child should be afraid to attend school because of the threat of sexual abuse, corporal punishment, or bullying. But every year 350 million children face violence in schools - and with devastating effects.
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Learn Without Fear - The Global Campaign to End Violence in Schools ! TAKE ACTION !
Society & Culture  (tags: children, schools, violence, protection, humans, safety )

Cher
- 127 days ago - globalhealth.change.org
No child should be afraid to attend school because of the threat of sexual abuse, corporal punishment, or bullying. But every year 350 million children face violence in schools - and with devastating effects
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Change.Org - Food For Thought
Society & Culture  (tags: children, schools, politics, education, food, culture, society, safety, americans, health, prevention, protection, research, safety, nutrition, diet, Sustainabililty, environment, conservation, animals, farms, vegetarians, meat, beef, pork, obesity )

Tom
- 172 days ago - change.org
Teach children how to save our natural resources, feed our hungry brothers and sisters in the world, respect and protect animals, and take better care of ourselves. We can be more compassionate, healthier, and smarter by simply changing our eating habits.
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Report Warns of Student Injuries, Even Deaths, at the Hands of Teachers
Society & Culture  (tags: Government Accountability, Schools, children, handicapped, abuse, death, crime, law, rights )

Dee
- 190 days ago - abcnews.go.com
Julie Quill said she knew something wasn't right when her son Shawn, 11, came home from his Boston-area school one day last year with a cut lip and a limp."Shawn isn't verbal so he couldn't tell me what was going on,"
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The Latest Topics in Education
Society & Culture  (tags: Society, New York State, Education, schools, students, Homeless children, teachers, government )

Dee
- 203 days ago - capitalnews9.com
Today, we're taking a look at some topics that making news in the education industry. Some issues are at a statewide level, another is specifically a local story. It's an update of what's happening in and out of the classroom.
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VIDEO: Healing the Legacy of Indian Boarding School Abuse 1879-2009
Society & Culture  (tags: Native Americans, Indians, schools, suicides, children, trauma, apology, United States, genocide, government, crime, ethics, terrorism, abuse )

Tom
- 259 days ago - wellbrietyjourney.org
White Bison President Don Coyhis talks about his Care2 petition's 40-day, 6800 mile cross-country journey and it's goal of promoting awareness, dialogue and forgiveness among Native peoples for the historical trauma of the Indian Boarding School Era.
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GO ITALY!! Italy Launches Anti-Anorexia Campaign
Society & Culture  (tags: Italy, anti-anorexia, too skinny, young girls, starving, schools, students )

ON VACATI
- 608 days ago - feminist.org
The Italian Ministries of Health and Sports are launching a $1.5 million campaign to combat rising rates of anorexia and other eating disorders. According to Pretoria News, the campaign will target schools and the media, providing guidelines...
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Jarod's Law: Schools Must Focus on Safety
Society & Culture  (tags: child, children, safety, society, humans, schools, injuries )


- 738 days ago - cantonrep.com
Clifford Cantwell was excited to wear his new SpongeBob T-shirt on the second day back to school. It had to be cut off his body before the day was through. He was strapped to a stretcher in an emergency room as the scissors made their cut.
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School Settles Down After 'Assassination List' of 2 Fifth Graders Found
Society & Culture  (tags: children, crime, safety, society, schools, bullying, humans )


- 738 days ago - commercialappeal.com
From all reports, Friday progressed without incident at West Junior High School in Oakland, one day after two fifth-graders were charged with multiple counts for compiling an assassination list of 14 classmates. But as Stacey Grooms waited for school to
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The Truth Behind Sexual Assault
Society & Culture  (tags: schools, sex assault, violence, safety )

Sherry
- 748 days ago - dailyprincetonian.com
For survivors of sexual assault, the experience is often incredibly traumatizing. Speaking at the awareness event "Take Back the Night" last spring, Leonore Carlson '08 recalled her own experience. Upon returning to a residential college after a night ou
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AP: Sexual Misconduct Plagues US Schools
Society & Culture  (tags: children, sex offenders, schools, teachers, society, child, abuse )


- 768 days ago - news.yahoo.com
The young teacher hung his head, avoiding eye contact. Yes, he had touched a fifth-grader's breast during recess. "I guess it was just lust of the flesh," he told his boss. That got Gary C. Lindsey fired from his first teaching job in Oelwein, Iowa. But
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Sex Offender Charged With Trespassing at Annapolis School
Society & Culture  (tags: children, schools, sex offender )

Sherry
- 819 days ago - baltimoresun.com
School officials said a program adopted last school year to track visitors -- which also scans a national registry of sex offenders -- alerted staff that Torrence Ramone Davis, of Annapolis, was listed as a potential sex offender.
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255 Sex Offenders Cleared to Work With Children
Society & Culture  (tags: sex offenders, criminals, schools, home office, uk, britain )

Cissy
- 917 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
Scores of dangerous criminals - including sex offenders - were cleared to work with children because of Home Office blunders, it was revealed.
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Parents: School Hid Rapes of 1st-Graders - Crime & Punishment - MSNBC.Com
Society & Culture  (tags: Children, Schools, Rape )

Pam
- 1021 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
But instead of calling police and removing F.H., district officials covered up the attack and allowed him to remain in class, leading to the sexual assault of three more first-graders, parents say
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