Forum: Youth Rights News Wire

By Glenn Counts July 28, 2010 CHARLOTTE, N.C. – If kids run into police officers Steve Arnold and Kevin Stank while breaking curfew, they may be surprised by the consequences. “We try and methodically cover the area and it’s basically going up and down these streets all night,” says...

By Eric Kuhn July 28, 2010 Washington (CNN) – Senior White House officials huddled Tuesday with a group of tech-savvy, hyper-connected "Generation Y" and "millennial" leaders, CNN has learned. The day-long meeting was with 70 young entrepreneurs, entertainers, philanthropists and local...

Source: AFP July 28, 2010 DUTCH judges have given the green light for a teenage girl's bid to become the youngest person to sail around the world solo, rejecting attempts to keep her under state supervision. "The court rejects the request for the extension of supervision" of child care...

By Howard W. Buffett July 28, 2010 The Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation focuses on doing business differently by promoting service as a solution and a way to develop community leadership. Solutions to America's challenges are being developed every day at the grass roots -...

By Kassie Wright July 29, 2010 Do you remember those days? C’mon sure you do. I bet you said that too! When you’re young and carefree you long to be old and responsible. I wish I was 18 so I could stay out late! The dreams of ‘no curfew’, I used to think. Or how about drinking age or driving...

By Andrew Ramadge July 28, 2010 GOOGLE wants to find out who'll win the next, next election, by asking school students around the country to vote in a virtual simulation of this year's poll. The web giant today launched its Student Voice initiative to introduce teenage Australians to the...

On a snowy Saturday in December 1965, a group of students met in Des Moines, Iowa, to plan a protest against U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. After long discussion, they decided to wear black armbands to school on Dec. 16, and continue wearing them. Principals learned of the plan and...

That is a question that recently came before the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Every state has “public records” laws that allow for transparency in government. In other words, records of public meetings and transactions by local, state and federal bodies are subject to disclosure. That includes...

A dress-code dispute over an anti-abortion T-shirt will head to trial in late August, after a federal district judge said it was an open question whether officials prohibited a student from wearing her shirt with pictures of fetuses because of its viewpoint or because it was too graphic. In...

By Kelly Daniels July 23, 2010 After several meetings, an appointed task force has found that mandating a curfew for juveniles is neither necessary or feasible. While a curfew for juveniles may aid parents with a home for their children, the city lacks a juvenile detention center and the...

Hold on to your girls before you read this, ladies. There is a practice called “breast ironing” in the African country of Cameroon, a practice which involves flattening a girl’s growing breasts with hot stones to prevent her nipples from being firm and “enticing men.” The news network CurrentTV...

Home-school ban in Sweden forces families to mull leaving 　 A small change in Sweden's schooling law is about to make a big difference for Swedish home-schooling families, potentially causing them to flee to other countries or bring cases to international courts to protect religious and parental...

Teens at Rahway High School audited their school’s water consumption, with a little help from Rutgers, and figured out a way to save 1.6 million gallons of water a year. Now, thanks to the work of the Rahway Water Champions, a three-year-old club at Rahway High School, and a donation from...

Former Safford resident Savana Redding is one of four nominees for the Youth Rights Progress award that will be given by the National Youth Rights Association, a youth advocacy group, Aug. 7. Redding, who could not be reached for comment, was nominated for the award for “successfully defending...

A school district in Mississippi has agreed to pay a recent high school graduate $35,000 in damages and adopt a policy prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation, according to a statement released Tuesday by the American Civil Liberties Union. The settlement comes after the ACLU...

http://www.ohio.com/news/top_stories/98469064.html As a UPS driver, Ron Boyd has handled so many packages that they all pretty much look the same. But when he picked one up in Hudson the other day, his eyes widened. Boyd was at Little Tikes, the...

A federal court in Connecticut is taking on this question as a result of a lawsuit filed by 5 female volleyball players and a coach from Quinnipiac University. The lawsuit was filed after the school cut their sport in favor of a competitive cheer squad to save more than $32,000 a year. It has...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. -- At the AMF Southwest Lanes, there's an old adage that "bowling is ageless." The saying is exemplified by two Bakersfield bowlers who are separated by more than 80 years in age. Ed LeBlanc, 91, visits the bowling alley nearly every day, according to employees at the...

By Stanley Dunlap July 7, 2010 Minors in Jackson will be under a daytime curfew this school year after the measure garnered unanimous approval during Tuesday's city council meeting. The Jackson City Council approved the curfew Tuesday morning. It is designed to help curb truancy and youth...