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On today’s episode of The Confluence: The state’s Independent Fiscal Office wrote in a report about public education funding stating that there is “little or no correlation” between between funding and student test scores over the course of a single year, but some lawmakers are pushing back against that conclusion; a Pitt researcher asked local kin and foster parents about how the pandemic is affecting their children’s education; and as part of our Good Question Kid! series, we ask, why and how do hyenas eat bones?
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More Pennsylvania children in foster care are being placed with family members or someone they know. In an annual report, the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services also found the pandemic led to fewer reports of suspected child abuse last year. Officials attributed the decline to the pandemic and reduced contact between children and mandated reporters, like teachers.
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The Supreme Court said Monday it will hear a dispute over a Philadelphia Catholic agency that won't place foster children with same-sex couples.The…
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On today’s program: The number of kids in foster care has increased as the opioid epidemic grows; Pittsburgh has a half-hidden fountain of youth; FBI…
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Foster children who live in residential facilities in Pennsylvania suffered physical and verbal abuse in hundreds of documented cases between 2010 and…
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Research released this week shows that, compared to the rest of the country, Pennsylvania is more likely to place foster youth in group homes and…
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As many as 15,000 children are in Pennsylvania's foster care system at any given time, and a disproportionate number are often African-American. How can…
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“Do you want my real name or my studio name?”Asaun Brown, an aspiring rapper, hasn’t actually spent much time in recording studios, but he’s not fooling…
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When 22-year-old Kristian Trump Goerman died of a drug overdose in January, she left behind two young children. Trump Goerman had long battled an opioid…
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In the short period of time that the city’s Big Burgh mobile app, aimed at helping the homeless find resources, has been available, it has far exceeded…