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-- 2016 --

November 22: Stanford researchers find students have trouble judging the credibility of information online
https://ed.stanford.edu/news/stanford-researchers-find-students-have-trouble-judging-credibility-information-online

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January 5: How to Help Your Kids Recognize Fake News
https://iowacity.citymomsblog.com/2017/01/05/fighting-fake-news-with-media-literacy-for-kids/

June 24: Fake news a bipartisan problem for social media
http://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-nation/2017/06/25/Fake-news-a-bipartisan-problem-for-social-media-democrats-republicans-study/stories/201706220145

November 11: Children Speak Out About Donald Trump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tycvg0eyA3s

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February 5: Alisyn Camerota: How to teach kids what real news is

... Kids, like adults, need to have a balanced news diet -- one that challenges their own world view and encourages them to be skeptical. This includes credible sources -- for international, national and local news, entertainment news and more -- that cover both what you like to click on (the latest celebrity sighting, a human interest story) and what you need to know (national politics, local news, tomorrow's weather.)

... the majority of students who have participated in [the NewsLiteracyProgram-NLP]  program reported gaining a greater appreciation for the watchdog role of a free press in a democracy and developing a better understanding of quality journalism and what distinguishes it from other sources of information.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/05/opinions/children-fake-news-opinion-camerota/index.html

February 5: Trump Writes to 7-Year-Old Who Saw a School Shooting and Asked How He Would Protect Kids From Guns
http://www.newsweek.com/trump-school-shootings-gun-control-799694

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February 5: Trump’s Attack on Immigrants Is Breaking the Backbone of America’s Child Care System
https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/early-childhood/news/2018/02/05/445676/trumps-attack-immigrants-breaking-backbone-americas-child-care-system/

February 13: Trump Didn't Answer My Question, Says 7-Year-Old School Shooting Witness Who Wrote to President
http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-ava-rose-olsen-school-shooting-804770

February 13: ... soon after [Wisconsin Governor Scott] Walker won the election, the Republican-controlled legislature in Wisconsin changed state law. Under the rule change, it became much more difficult for victims of lead paint poisoning, most of them children, to sue NL Industries and other former lead paint manufacturers for the damage inflicted on them.

The bill is likely to be put to a House vote next month and is assured of passage through overwhelming Democratic support. It is almost certain to flounder, however, in the Republican-controlled Senate, given the virulent opposition from the party.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/13/political-funding-dark-money-anti-corruption-trump


February 15: Pres. Trump: Making schools, children safer 'top priority'
http://www.wfmz.com/news/pres-trump-making-schools-children-safer-top-priority/702132087

February 17: Florida shooting: Victim's mother invokes Donald Trump's son Barron in gun control plea

‘President Trump, Barron goes to school. Let’s protect Barron. And all these other kids ... President Trump, you say, ‘What can you do?’ You can stop the guns from getting into these children’s hands ... President Trump, please do something’
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/florida-school-shooting-lori-alhadeff-alyssa-donald-trump-gun-control-plea-son-barron-victims-who-a8215546.html

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February 19: 'Their blood is on your hands': Parkland high school students hit back at Trump for blaming Democrats and the FBI for the shooting
http://www.businessinsider.com/parkland-florida-students-slam-trump-for-blaming-democrats-fbi-for-shooting-2018-2

February 20: Donald Trump Jr. on Tuesday “liked” a pair of tweets touting a conspiracy theory smearing David Hogg, a 17-year-old Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School senior who pleaded for gun control in the wake of surviving last week’s rampage in Parkland, Florida.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/feb/20/donald-trump-jr-likes-tweets-smearing-florida-scho/

February 20: One of the tweets accused Hogg of actually being an FBI plant, which is objectively insane. It would be laughable if we hadn’t already seen the trauma that these sorts of conspiracy theories put families in Newtown through after the Sandy Hook massacre. And now the president’s own son has apparently been endorsing this horrifying treatment of a school shooting survivor.
https://splinternews.com/donald-trump-jr-is-liking-posts-that-smear-kids-who-su-1823155074

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February 21: Dead student's dad tells Trump: Fix school safety. It's simple.

Spilling out wrenching tales of lost lives and stolen security, students with quavering voices and parents shaking with anger appealed to President Donald Trump on Wednesday to set politics aside and protect American schoolchildren from the scourge of gun violence.

An angry Andrew Pollack had a single demand: Make our kids safe.

“It’s simple,” he said. No parent should ever have to send a child to school wondering whether the kid will come home, Pollack said. His daughter Meadow was killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

"It should have been one school shooting and we should have fixed it and I'm pissed. Because my daughter, I'm not going to see again," said Pollack. "King David Cemetery, that is where I go to see my kid now.”

Cary Gruber, father of a Parkland student, implored Trump: "It's not left and right," adding: "if you can't buy a beer, shouldn't be able to buy a gun."
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/parkland/florida-school-shooting/fl-florida-school-shooting-trump-families-20180221-story.html

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February 21: Florida School’s Students And Parents Tearfully Ask Trump To Address Gun Violence

In a “listening session” at the White House, survivors of the Stoneman Douglas High massacre tell of their fears and grief. Trump suggests more guns in schools and more mental hospitals.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-listening-session-guns_us_5a8de99ae4b077f5bfeab815

February 23: Trump says armed teachers would best protect students because they ‘love their pupils’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-armed-teachers-would-have-shot-the-hell-out-of-florida-school-gunman/2018/02/23/219b0888-18a1-11e8-92c9-376b4fe57ff7_story.html?utm_term=.ec1e7339533d

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February 26: White House: Donald Trump Believes He Would Have Stormed School To Save Florida Students From Shooter

Speaking to a gathering of governors at the White House earlier in the day, Trump said he would have rushed the building, even if packing no heat, and he savaged the school’s “disgusting” on-duty deputy who did not enter the building as the murders were being committed.

“You don’t know until you test it, but I really believe I’d run in there even if I didn’t have a weapon,” Trump boasted. “And I think most of the people in this room would have done that, too,” he added, graciously.

Asked to explain Trump’s wackadoodle assertion, Sanders said Trump was “just stating that, as a leader, he would have stepped in and hopefully been able to help.”

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One reporter wondered if Trump had trained in firing a weapon. Sanders insisted that was not the point and that Trump was saying he would have been a leader and would want to take a courageous stand, as did those others who did help the students even though they were not armed.

She, like Trump, seemed to be equating POTUS’ heroic exploits in his head with the actual heroism of  the school’s football coach, Aaron Feis, who died shielding students.
http://deadline.com/2018/02/white-house-donald-trump-would-have-stormed-school-to-save-florida-students-from-shooter-1202303520/

March 8: Open Letter to President Donald Trump:

Keep Guns Out of the Classroom: Allow Teachers to Teach

As California Teachers of the Year and the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, our focus is on our students, our classrooms, and education policy.

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Now, however, we must talk about another topic: guns.

We can no longer remain silent while students, teachers, and classified employees are slain on school campuses with assault weapons designed for combat. Since Columbine took
place nearly 20 years ago, we have witnessed tragedy after tragedy with no significant changes in our national gun laws.
https://www.cde.ca.gov/nr/el/le/yr18ltr0308.asp

March 11: Chuck Todd Rips Steve Mnuchin Over Trump’s “Son of a Bitch” Insult

Online, Todd seemed to take the slight in stride, tweeting Saturday night, “Don’t miss @MeetThePress tomorrow! I know folks may be tired in the morning due to springing forward, so set those clocks and DVRs now before your eyes get too sleepy.” But in person, his patience seemed to have frayed. “I bring my kids up to respect the office of the presidency and the president,” he said during an appearance on NBC4 Saturday night. “I don’t allow them to say anything negative, ever, about the president.”

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Trump has been using the odd “sleepy eyes” insult since at least 2012, when he tweeted, “It's great that sleepy eyes @chucktodd gets no traction.” He has since called him “sleepy” more than a dozen times ...

“Chuck, you know I’ve been with the president in campaigns,” Mnuchin said. “You know he likes to put names on people. He did that through the entire presidential election, including all the Republicans that he beat. So these are campaign rally issues.” Todd was incredulous: “So you’re saying that’s acceptable behavior for the rest of the administration too, or it’s just unique to him?”

“Again, Chuck, this is something that is at a campaign rally,” Mnuchin responded. “The president likes making funny names ... I think you should be focused on the policies,” he continued. “He is using these vulgarities in the context of a campaign rally. Obviously, there were a lot of funny moments at that rally."

“Yeah,” Todd said, before ending the interview. “They were hilarious.”
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/03/chuck-todd-mnuchin-trump-son-of-a-bitch

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March 11: Havasupai children write letters to Trump, asking for end to canyon mining

The Havasupai – the name means people of the blue-green waters – are one of the smallest tribes in North America, and they’ve battled canyon mining for decades.

Supai is nestled within Havasu Canyon, which is adjacent to Grand Canyon National Park. The tiny village was established in 1880 and is accessible only by foot, horse, mule or helicopter. Bracketed by red rock canyons, it sits on the southern bank of the Colorado River, 56 miles from Canyon Mine atop the rim. But Havasupai officials fear mine contaminants will seep into the groundwater, harming their children and destroying the tribe’s way of life.
https://kdminer.com/news/2018/mar/11/havasupai-children-write-letters-trump-asking-end-/

May 15: Trump administration preparing to hold immigrant children on military bases
https://www.washingtonpost.com/

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May 16: Fast-food restaurant owner can’t find teenagers to fill jobs
https://www.foxbusiness.com/features/fast-food-restaurant-owner-cant-find-teenagers-to-fill-jobs

May 22: President Donald Trump wrongly blamed Democrats for a Trump administration policy that will separate parents and their young children caught entering the U.S. illegally.

“We have to break up families,” Trump claimed, because of “bad laws that the Democrats gave us.” But there is no such law. Instead, it’s the administration’s decision to criminally prosecute all immigrants who cross the border illegally that will cause children to be separated from their parents.

In early May, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen directed her department to refer all unauthorized immigrants who cross the U.S. border to federal prosecutors. It’s in accordance with the Department of Justice’s new “zero tolerance” policy on illegal immigration at the Southwest border.

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Parents would be sent to federal court under the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service and then placed in a detention center, according to a DHS spokesperson. Their children, minors who cannot be housed in a detention center for adults, would be transferred to the Department of Health and Human Services for placement in a juvenile facility or foster care if they have no other adult relative in the U.S. who can take them in.
https://www.factcheck.org/2018/05/trump-blames-own-border-policy-on-democrats/

May 22: Facing dozens of migrants shackled at their waist and ankles, public defender Miguel "Andy" Nogueras asked a question he had rarely asked before last week: Have you been separated from your children?

Last Thursday, a Central American woman was among several in the courthouse here who said yes.

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Nogueras asked how old her child is so that he could refer her to one of his attorneys, and the answer haunted him for the rest of the day.

"Five years old," Nogueras told NBC News. "What kind of scars are we creating? The child has to be asking, where's my mom? And that kid has to be scared. I can't even fathom."

Earlier this month, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a goal to criminally prosecute 100 percent of people crossing the border illegally — including families with children.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/anguish-southwest-border-more-immigrant-children-are-separated-parents-n874821

May 25: Trump’s Crackdown On Immigrant Parents Puts More Kids In An Already Strained System

Until recently, families that illegally crossed together generally faced deportation proceedings in civil court. But as of this month,
the Trump administration is following a blanket policy of referring for prosecution all people who cross illegally. The change means that authorities send parents to jails run by the U.S. Marshals Services and their children wind up in the same agency as minors who came to the U.S. without their parents ― sometimes without their parents being able to locate them.

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White House chief of staff John Kelly told NPR this month that once separated from their parents, children “will be taken care of — put into foster care or whatever.” https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/immigrant-children-separated-from-parents_us_5b087b90e4b0802d69cb4070

May 26: Trump Blames His Own Cruel Child-Separation Policy on Democrats

The Trump administration is forcibly taking migrant children from their parents and placing them in separate detention centers, to “deter” illegal immigration. On Saturday morning, Trump claimed it is all Democrats fault.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/05/trump-blames-his-own-child-separation-policy-on-democrats

May 26: Trump criticizes separating families at the border, despite his administration's support for policy that could lead to separation

"Put pressure on the Democrats to end the horrible law that separates children from there (sic) parents ..."

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This isn't the first time that the President has cast blame on Democrats for policy that results in the separation of parents and children at the border.

At a meeting with California officials this month, Trump suggested that Democrats were responsible for immigration laws that compel federal immigration agents to break up families.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/26/politics/trump-separating-parents-children-border-crossing/index.html

May 26: Trump made the remarks amid a pushback from Democrats and activists at a “zero tolerance” policy enforced by the Justice Department. That policy refers all illegal border crossings for prosecution, including illegal immigrants with children.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/05/26/trump-calls-for-democrats-to-end-horrible-law-that-says-separates-children-from-parents-at-border.html?intcmp=ob_article_footer_text&intcmp=obnetwork

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May 26: Dem lawmaker to Melania: Your husband separating immigrant children from their parents is not a 'Be Best' policy

The first lady earlier this month announced “Be Best,” her platform on children’s issues including well-being and social media use.

She has faced ridicule from Trump critics for her focus on anti-bullying and cyberbullying, with many pointing to her husband’s name-calling and Twitter attacks directed at his political opponents.
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/389492-dem-lawmaker-to-melania-your-husband-separating-immigrant-children-from-their

May 27: The Office of Refugee Resettlement, a federal agency tasked with placing thousands of immigrant children in sponsor homes, reportedly lost track of 1,500 kids in the last three months of 2017.

The agency goes through a series of background checks of the sponsor before transferring the child to ensure the child is safe from human traffickers and smugglers, Wagner said.  

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The revelation of “unaccounted for” children has drawn increased scrutiny following the Department of Homeland Security’s defense of a policy that separates families at the border. 
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/05/27/some-1500-immigrant-children-unaccounted-for-federal-official-says.html

June 19: 600 United Methodists file complaint against Sessions for child abuse, discrimination
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/06/19/united-methodists-church-complaint-jeff-sessions-border-policy/713986002/

June 21: What to Know About the Detention Centers for Immigrant Children Along the U.S.–Mexico Border
https://www.thecut.com/2018/06/immigrant-children-detention-center-separated-parents.html

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June 21: Handcuffs, assaults, and drugs called 'vitamins': Children allege grave abuse at migrant detention facilities

The allegations in ... documents, as well as recent facility inspection reports and other lawsuits, range from unsanitary conditions and invasive monitoring of mail and phone calls to unair-conditioned rooms in hot Texas summers and dosing children with cocktails of psychotropic drugs disguised as vitamins. At one facility, children recounted being held down for forcible injections, which medical records show are powerful antipsychotics and sedatives.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/21/us/undocumented-migrant-children-detention-facilities-abuse-invs/index.html

June 30: It’s official: the Trump administration has replaced family separation with indefinite family detention

In a new court filing, Trump’s Department of Justice says it’s now legally allowed to detain migrant families — no matter how long their cases take.
https://www.vox.com/2018/6/30/17520820/families-together-detention-separate-camp-military

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June 26: Trump immigration: Cost of migrant detention v alternatives

Donald Trump has signed an executive order stopping family separation, but his administration still plans to put families into detention if they try to cross the border illegally.

What are the alternatives to detention for families and what do they cost?
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-44608078/trump-immigration-cost-of-migrant-detention-v-alternatives

July 27: Wife of a former US Marine is facing deportation to Mexico

The Davenport resident has no criminal record but faces a removal order over her 1998 illegal entry into the United States, Soto said. She's married to a former Marine and Iraq War veteran, and they have two girls, ages 8 and 16, who are US citizens.

... her teen daughter will stay with her father in Florida while the younger one will go with her to Mexico if she's deported. "My heart is torn apart," ...
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/27/us/florida-marine-wife-to-be-deported/


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July 28: Some of the kids in U.S. custody may never see their parents again

We haven't seen their faces. We don't know their names. We only know a number: 711.

That's how many immigrant kids from separated families remain in custody, according to the latest government tally.

Officials say that, for various reasons, their families weren't eligible for reunification by Thursday's deadline. They might be in the future, although a former head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement warned this week that some of the children might never see their parents again.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/28/politics/separated-kids-what-next/index.html

September 6: Trump Administration Proposes Rule To Allow Longer Detention Of Migrant Children
https://www.npr.org/2018/09/06/645195329/trump-administration-proposes-rule-to-allow-longer-detention-of-migrant-children


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September 12: Trump administration diverted nearly $10 million from FEMA to ICE detention program, according to DHS document
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/09/12/document-shows-the-trump-administration-diverted-nearly-10-million-from-fema-to-ice-detention-program/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.59565e2f1fc2


September 12: Border arrests of migrant families increase 38 percent as Trump administration seeks to expand detention
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Border-arrests-of-migrant-families-increase-38-13225312.php


September 13: Trump administration is holding at least 12,800 children in immigration detention facilities

A new report reveals figures have skyrocketed as the Trump administration struggles to release minors to sponsors or family members.
https://thinkprogress.org/12800-immigrant-children-detention-centers-b8726a23061c/


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October 1: Trump’s Child-Detention Crisis Is Getting Worse

Under cover of darkness, the federal government has been moving hundreds of children a week to a sprawling tent city near the Rio Grande.

Three months after Donald Trump gave in to global opprobrium and discontinued his administration’s policy of separating children from their parents at the Mexican border, the stark impact of his zero-tolerance directive continues to unfold, with reports emerging that, in the space of a year, the number of migrant children detained by the U.S. government has spiked from 2,400 to over 13,000—despite the number of monthly border crossings remaining relatively unchanged. The increase, along with the fact that the average detainment period has jumped from 34 to 59 days, has resulted in an accommodation crisis. As a result, hundreds of children—some wearing belts inscribed with their emergency-contact information—have been packed onto buses, transported for hours, and deposited at a tented city in a stretch of desert in Tornillo, West Texas. According to The New York Times, these journeys typically occur in the middle of the night and on short notice, to prevent children from fleeing.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/10/donald-trump-child-detention-crisis-is-getting-worse

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October 4: Trump agency shifts website to tougher stance on juvenile crime

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention website has slashed references to treating and rehabilitating young people.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-agency-shifts-website-tougher-stance-juvenile-crime-n916371

October 12: Trump administration may make parents at border choose: detention or separation
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-trump-family-separation-border-20181012-story.html

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October 29:
One of the goals of sex education in schools is to help young people understand the risks of unprotected sex, including sexually transmitted infection and pregnancy. For many in the Trump administration, only one approach to sex ed is permissible: abstinence until marriage. Through the positions they hold, adherents to this view apply their influence over federal policy to ensure this approach is the only one that’s federally funded. This work didn’t take place overnight; like most conflicts over ideology, this one has been brewing a long time, even if it only catapulted to prominence in the last two years.

The change has led to the dismantling of a successful program, the Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) Program, which began with bipartisan support in 2010.
https://nonprofitquarterly.org/2018/10/31/why-un-fund-a-proven-program-the-teen-pregnancy-prevention-fiasco/

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November 26: The busiest U.S. border crossing is open again this morning, after a confrontation forced it to close temporarily Sunday, as frustration among thousands of migrants upset by the slow pace of the U.S. asylum process boiled over. Yesterday, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents fired tear gas at hundreds of people, including women and children, after some of them tried to force their way across the border between San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico.

... the official port of entry was closed for about five hours yesterday. Violence erupted as Mexican police attempted to break up the protesters, and some made a run for the border between Tijuana and San Diego, California.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/migrant-caravan-mexico-border-busiest-u-s-mexico-border-crossing-reopens-after-violent-clashes/


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