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"Foster children in Philadelphia face obstacle after obstacle in their quest to obtain a high-quality education.

Philadelphia had 8,020 children in foster care in 2016

“Education, and especially special education, are very parent-driven processes,” said Kate Burdick, staff attorney at the Juvenile Law Center. “So when a student doesn’t have

The problem with an overly punitive approach to juvenile probation is that, simply put, it does not work. In his soon-to-be released monograph, “Youth on

Riya Saha Shah, a senior supervising attorney with the Juvenile Law Center in Philadelphia, said the proposed policy could disproportionately impact students of color who may live

Marsha Levick, the deputy director and chief counsel of the nonprofit Juvenile Law Center, said Brown is far from the only juvenile offender to have

In an extensive 2016 report, the Juvenile Law Center equated juvenile jail systems to debtor’s prisons, accusing them of exacerbating the cycle of poverty

How many times does the Supreme Court have to repeat itself before its message gets through? In the case of life-without-parole sentences for juveniles, the

Since the Montgomery ruling, states have been struggling as they contemplate how to resentence juvenile offenders.

What does all this mean for the young people