Stephen Boyle's List: Family

• From 2010 to 2011, the statewide median household income fell by 1.5 % and the percentage of people living in poverty jumped from 16.8% to 17.5%. Several communities have seen significant increases in child poverty
• From 2010 to 2011, the statewide median household income fell by 1.5 % and the percentage of people living in poverty jumped from 16.8% to 17.5%. Several communities have seen significant increases in child poverty rates: From 2008 to 2011, Waterford, Sterling Heights and Shelby Town

  ship saw their rates go up by 15, 14 and 14 percentage points, respectively, the largest increases in the tri-county area in that time.
• "When family members lose employment or have a reduced income, even though they are working someplace else, it really puts a stress on the youth, especially in that junior high and high school age," Long said. "It's multiple little pieces of impact on a family that make it difficult. In the metro area, in particular Detroit, the priority has got to be getting kids educated because the consequences have a real ripple effect in the future.
• Poverty, which the census defines as annual income of $23,021 or less for a family of four, rose in Detroit to 40.9%, with the figure for children younger than 18 at 57.3%.
• "The median income in Detroit is half what it is in the nation," said demographer Kurt Metzger of Data Driven Detroit, a nonprofit research firm. "Half the households in the city make less than $25,000 a year."

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• charter school was not a state actor with respect to employment issues. These attorneys insisted that the same logic applied to student issues as well.
• Researchers have consistently found that black male students are disproportionately subjected to school discipline, such as suspensions and expulsions. In public schools, the Due Process Clause protects them from arbitrary suspensions and expulsions.
• If charter schools are not public actors, then constitutional law would not apply. I have argued that courts might apply contract law, as is generally the case for private schools

• constitutional law did not apply to private high schools. Interestingly, the court found that high school students would receive less protection than private university students.

   

  I raise these points because parents may be unwittingly giving up their constitutional protections to attend charter schools. One has to wonder whether parents would enroll their children if they were aware of this possibility.

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• In 2010, nearly 40 percent of children who had been removed from their homes—more than 85,000 children that year—were later returned with no finding of abuse or neglect, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.

• a microcosm of a nation whose motto could be, “In Nothing We Trust.”
• When people trust their institutions, they’re better able to solve common problems. Research shows that school principals are much more likely to turn around struggling schools in places where people have a history of working together and getting involved in their children’s education. Communities bonded by friendships formed at church are more likely to vote, volunteer, and perform everyday good deeds like helping someone find a job. And governments find it easier to persuade the public to make sacrifices for the common good when people trust that their political leaders have the community’s best interests at heart. “Institutions—even dysfunctional ones—are why we don’t run amok in the woods,” Hansen says.
• The number of charter-school students nationwide has nearly quadrupled over the past decade to more than 1.6 million in the 2009-10 school year. In 2007, the most recent data available, the number of homeschooled students was about 1.5 million, a 76 percent increase since 1999. Many new charter schools cost the state less money than traditional schools and craft school-specific curricula, free from rigid state and district requirements.
• After a 50-year decline, just 14 percent of respondents in a 2011 Gallup Poll said that the federal government could be trusted “a great deal.” It’s a vicious cycle. Voters don’t like hard truths; so politicians spin us; so we don’t trust politicians; so politicians pander and lie to us.
• A low-level city board gave a guy a break. Its members showed that institutions can respond to change and help people after all.

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• Michigan Department of Human Services (DHS) workers will protest mass hearings, or “Rocket Dockets,” scheduled by DHS director Maura D. Corrigan.
• DHS has planned 928 hearings over two days, Nov. 28 and 29, at DHS district offices across the state. Administrative judges will determine if those Michigan residents receiving welfare cash assistance are eligible for exemptions. The high number of cases in such a short period of time is designed to accelerate the denial of exemptions, according to Taylor.
• 48-month limit, and a federal 60-month limit for cash benefits, will be enforced retroactively.
• According to Taylor, 41,000 families in Wayne County receive cash assistance — 15,000 in the city of Detroit. Over 11,000 families across the state will suffer from discontinued assistance starting this month.
• Walkowicz says the term “Rocket Docket” is used by DHS director Maura Corrigan, a former Michigan State Supreme Court judge, in times when caseloads stack up and need to handled quickly.
  
  “In this situation, it’s very insensitive,” Walkowicz says. “They’re really just hoping no one shows up. That’s what this is all about.”

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• Constitutional law attorney Leon Koziol has filed a parental civil rights lawsuit alleging willful and harmful violations of the US and New York Constitutions and civil rights laws by New York courts and government agencies involving their mistreatment of parents and children.
• Koziol has lost his children, his legal career, and much of his income and property apparently due to the systematic abuse alleged to have been executed by several of the defendants as they attempted to terrorize, harass, threaten, and coerce Koziol to stop his complaints against them.

• Below is part one of a three part video featuring Leon Koziol speaking about the “separate but unequal” family law policy practiced across the United States in violation of the US Constitution. This video and others like it are apparently part of the reason for the government’s retaliation against Koziol. He criticizes their conduct that causes immense harm to children and parents and they aim to destroy him for publicly expressing his legitimate and accurate opinions that expose their terroristic and abusive actions.

  Government in the US often operates under the premise that if somebody exposes a wrong, discredit and destroy that person rather than fixing the wrong. This is one important reason why American government has no moral authority today.

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• The 112th Congress (2011-2012)

   

  The Parental Rights Amendment was proposed by Rep. John Fleming (R-LA) on January 3, 2011, and numbered H.J. Res. 3.^[6] It currently has 17 cosponsors (May 26, 2011). It was assigned to the Constitution subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee. Rep. Trent Franks, chairman of the subcommittee, was a proponent of the proposal in the last Congress.

• United States Supreme Court in Troxel v. Granville (2000) produced 6 different opinions on the nature and enforceability of parental rights
• A proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States (House Joint Resolution 3) has been introduced in the 112th Congress that would prevent erosion of the enduring American tradition of treating parental rights as fundamental rights
• enumeration of these rights in the text of our nation’s constitution would preserve them from being infringed upon by the shifting ideologies and interpretations of the United States Supreme Court

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• more than 31,000 students were listed as homeless during the 2010-2011 school year. Four years ago, that number hovered around 7,500.
• The number of children living in poverty has dramatically increased in Michigan since 2007, from 19.4 percent to 23.5 percent.
• Washtenaw County Schools spent $5,234 on taxi fare for homeless students in October 2010. In October 2011, that amount rose to $9,223.
• A large percentage of homeless students before the 2007-2008 economic downturn were what school districts refer to as habitually homeless, meaning they had been in the system for some time. Now, 75 percent to 80 percent of the homeless children in Michigan are new to the system.

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• The initial victim who first went to police now says he made up those allegations of abuse.

   

   

   

  19-year-old Rodney Reames is at the center of those allegations against Michael Terpening, and now he says it was all made up.

   

   

   

  We asked Reames why he came forward. He said, “I'm doing this because I want to make things right.”

   

   

   

  Reames says he lived at Earth Services Youth Home in Bellevue while Terpening was the director for around a year and a half before he fabricated the allegations in May.

• You can even host a bead party and get all of your friends involved!
• The Girl Effect, The International Humanitarian Foundation, Tostan, and Bead for Life, but now I would also like to give a quick shout out to the Women's Resource Center based in Siem Reap, Cambodia, which is "dedicated to advancing the rights of girls and women and improving access to information and services so that women in Cambodia will be empowered to make their own decisions and improve their own quality of life, for themselves and their children." According to director Bouny Te, "When women realize that they do have value in society and that they can move beyond traditional roles in respectful ways, they can then emerge as equals." The Women's Resource Center also offers regular group "workshops" focused on parenting skills, maternal health, childcare, legal aid, and literacy. These groups are open to the community and provide a forum for discussion, education, and mutual aid that is not available anywhere else in Siem Reap. They do not receive any financial support from the government in Cambodia but are dependent soley on private donations.
• I am not sure if money really goes to the right persons, I kno

  w your culture is different, but I live in a (former) non developed country in Latin America, and I see everyday how NGO's and activists use the money for them and the rests for the people really need it.

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• A felony for spanking his son. After the not guilty verdict CPS and Bethany Christian went to family court to try to get a conviction.
• The judge in charge at family court through the case out. Two weeks latter Bethany Christian Services showed at the Dent's and tried to get back in there lives. Saying that they didn't have to abide by what the court say's