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In November 2011, at Orange River Elementary School in Florida, an assistant principal called the police after a girl kissed a boy. [49] [50] In February 2010, the principal of a junior high school in Forest Hills, Queens, New York, called police after a 12-year-old student used a green magic marker to write, "I love my friends Abby and Faith ...
Troubled teen industry. The troubled teen industry (also known as TTI) is a broad range of youth residential programs aimed at struggling teenagers. The term encompasses various facilities and programs, including youth residential treatment centers, wilderness programs, boot camps, and therapeutic boarding schools. [ 1 ][ 2 ] These programs ...
The Florida School for Boys, also known as the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys (AGDS), was a reform school operated by the state of Florida in the panhandle town of Marianna from January 1, 1900, to June 30, 2011. [ 1 ][ 2 ] A second campus was opened in the town of Okeechobee in 1955. For a time, it was the largest juvenile reform institution ...
The state’s sweeping privatization of its juvenile incarceration system has produced some of the worst re-offending rates in the nation. More than 40 percent of youth offenders sent to one of Florida’s juvenile prisons wind up arrested and convicted of another crime within a year of their release, according to state data.
Florida is among a small minority of states that employ direct file laws. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, in the last five years, Florida prosecuted 4,446 children as adults ...
Florida schools have new rules from lawmakers. What that means for Miami-Dade School Board. Grethel Aguila, Sommer Brugal. May 6, 2023 at 5:30 AM. Alie Skowronski/askowronski@miamiherald.com ...
Juvenile convicts working in the fields in a chain gang, photo taken circa 1903. The system that is currently operational in the United States was created under the 1974 Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act. The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act called for a "deinstitutionalization" of juvenile delinquents. The act ...
If the school does not make Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) on student test scores, the school is considered not providing a good education to its students and is labeled ‘in need of improvement.’ The school then faces serious sanctions—from allowing its students to move to other schools to being restructured. Schools that