North Carolinians have long recognized that children are one of our state’s most valuable resources and their success is our success. Investing in the health, safety, education and financial security of our children are among the most important duties of our society. As the recession continues to stress North Carolinians, it is critical that policymakers focus on preserving services for children and families.
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RALEIGH -- In 1985 the General Assembly adopted a statute allowing local public school districts to use corporal punishment as a form of discipline, as long as a few procedures were followed.
Leah Devlin, DDS, MPH, Gillings Visiting Professor of health policy and management at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, has been elected to serve a two-year term on the Action for Children North Carolina board of directors.
Action for Children North Carolina is a leading statewide, nonpartisan, nonprofit policy research and advocacy organization dedicated to ensuring that North Carolina children are healthy, safe, well-educated and have every opportunity for success.
Published Thursday, December 15, 2011 7:28 am by Herbert L. White
The number of N.C. school districts banning corporal punishment is rising, according to a study by Action for Children North Carolina.
RALEIGH — A Raleigh-based advocacy group is calling on the North Carolina State Board of Education to develop a state recommendation on corporal punishment in public schools, in hopes that all local districts across the state will ban the practice of teachers or administrators hitting students as a form of discipline.
(Action for Children) A new report released by the U.S. Census Bureau Monday suggests more Americans are living in poverty than previously thought. The Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM), finds 49.1 million Americans (16%) now live in poverty, a slight increase from the 46.6 million (15%) thought to be poor under the traditional measure of poverty.
