Recent news coverage of the case backlog at Child Protective Services suggests that the solution to protecting Texas' abused and neglected children is simply more money: $12,000 pay increases for ...

PHOENIX — An Arizona lawmaker said she is not surprised the head of the department that oversaw Arizona’s scandal-ridden child welfare agency has kept his job after a four-month investigation. “When ...

The recent problems at CPS have the Arizona Legislature looking for a fix. The fact that 6,000 reports of alleged child abuse went UNinvestigated caused alarm, as it should have. The department held ...

CPS Inspector General Nicholas Schuler joins us to discuss his latest report. A new report from the CPS inspector general uncovers loopholes and opaque rules that led to thousands of improper ...

CPS child-abuse investigator Kelli Bailey drove to an appointment with a possible abuser in Fort Worth last summer. A surge in substance abuse among Texas parents is endangering children, lawmakers ...

Several years ago, Columbus Public Schools (CPS) officials, community members and leaders met to discuss CPS’ future. At that time, a new Columbus High School hadn't been in the plan but, through ...

Administrators at a Chicago high school for years falsely recorded hundreds of students who were truant, missing or had dropped out as transfers to home-school programs in an effort to put a better ...

West Virginia kids are scared, struggling — dying — because the system designed to protect them is not working. When Jeff Pack spoke to lawmakers last week, he laid out all the reasons the Child ...

Editor’s note:The following is CityScrapes, a column of opinion and analysis. Last December, it was possible to look ahead with some degree of hope. Vaccines were on the way, along with the prospect ...

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