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Abuse cases spur reform in Hawaii

March 12, 2008 – 7:09 am

January 17, 2008, 23 month old Cyrus Belt was thrown to his death off a pedestrian bridge in Hawaii. This ended a short life apparently characterized by abuse.
Cyrus was just one day old when his first child welfare file was opened. Just six days before his death another threat of abuse and neglect complaint [...]

By Dana Hanley | Posted in government | Comments (7)

CA Department of Education finally responds

March 12, 2008 – 1:52 am

Three posts in a day, but since I was accused of making people fall out of their chairs with this afternoon’s post, I thought I’d better pass this along (pdf):
Released March 11, 2008
SACRAMENTO - State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Jack O’Connell announced today that the California Department of
Education has completed a legal review of the February [...]