Month: September 2021
Vaccinate teens without parental consent, NYC’s child welfare agency says
The city’s child welfare agency has given the green light to administer COVID-19 vaccines to more than 600 minors living in certain juvenile detention and…
Memphis school board is divided over school policing agreement
As school districts across the country move to cut ties with law enforcement agencies, some local education officials are raising concerns about the officers who…
California’s Reboot of Troubled Medi-Cal Puts Pressure on Health Plans
When Denise Williams’ baby boy was 2 months old, she became alarmed by a rattling sound in his lungs and took him to the emergency…
U.S. questions Michigan plan to send COVID aid to affluent districts
Some Michigan school districts face the prospect of returning millions of federal COVID relief dollars after federal officials warned that Michigan’s plan to distribute the…
Error in Indiana’s COVID data tracker affected 71 schools
The Indiana Department of Health incorrectly listed 71 schools as failing to report their COVID-19 cases to the state this year, a representative said Monday….
Meet Colorado’s 2022 Teacher of the Year finalists
Colorado’s seven 2022 Teacher of the Year finalists include two teachers from Douglas County, two from the Colorado Springs area, and three from rural districts…
Covid-Overwhelmed Hospitals Postpone Cancer Care and Other Treatment
It’s a bad time to get sick in Oregon. That’s the message from some doctors, as hospitals fill up with covid-19 patients and other medical…
Bill tripling Texas’ border security budget and allocating $750 million to wall construction becomes law
Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday signed into law a nearly $2 billion border security funding bill that will nearly triple the amount the state spends…
Study shows reasons why some Illinoisans not vaccinated
A new study is revealing some of the reasons why Illinoisans have yet to get vaccinated against COVID-19. According to the Illinois Department of Public Health, 6.6…
Leader of California’s Muscular Obamacare Exchange to Step Down
Peter Lee, who has steered California’s Affordable Care Act marketplace since late 2011 and helped mold it into a model of what the federal health…
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