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Hawaii’s School Furlough Days Mean Missed Meals
With the state instituting 17 school furlough days this year to meet a budget shortfall, many needy Hawaiian families are losing crucial breakfasts and lunches typically provided by the Department of Education. Although officials have promised to explore different options to help families, the director of School Food Services says that on furlough days there is “no obligation for the department to feed children.”
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Labels: budget shortfall, furlough days, Hawaii, school meals
Sex offenders in Georgia forced out of woods
A group of homeless sex offenders have been ordered to leave their makeshift camp in a densely wooded area behind a suburban office park in Marietta. The perpetrators made the camp their home as a last resort after being barred from living in many areas by one of the nation’s toughest sex offender policies. The men are prohibited from living, working or loitering within 1,000 feet of schools, churches, parks and other places where children gather. Officials are uncertain where they will go next.
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Labels: camp, homeless, sex offenders
Texas State Senator Looks to Enforce State Charity Care Rules
A state senator, Democrat Rodney Ellis of Houston, suspects that Texas’ nonprofit hospitals are not meeting their charity-care quotas under state law. The law, which Ellis wrote in 1993, offers nonprofit hospitals three ways to provide a stipulated volume of charity care. Ellis fears that the law’s lack of uniformity permits a lack of transparency and enforcement in charity care.
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Labels: charity care, hospitals, nonprofit hospital, Rodney Ellis, Texas
Homeless schools for homeless Oregon children
Amid the ongoing recession, enrollment in private nonprofit schools for the homeless has skyrocketed in Portland area, where the number of homeless students has risen 122 percent. Outreach workers, who try to provide stability and support for homeless students and their families, try to furnish the students with clothing, food and school supplies.
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Labels: homeless children, Portland, schools
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