30 Issues in 30 Days continues with a look at the city’s foster care system. In the late 80’s there were 50,000 children in the government’s care. Now the number is down to 18,000. Though foster care is not the crisis it was ten years ago, advocates say it should still a campaign issue.
Political Storm
Dante Chinni, political columnist for the Christian Science Monitor
- on the news from Washington DC
» Dante Chinni's columns in the CSMonitor
- on the news from Washington DC
» Dante Chinni's columns in the CSMonitor
What We Can Do
Dr. Faroque Khan, president of the Islamic Center of Long Island, in Westbury, sits on the board of Islamic Society of North America, also a professor of Medicine at SUNY Stony Brook
on what New Yorkers can do to help the victims of the South Asian earthquake
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on what New Yorkers can do to help the victims of the South Asian earthquake
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What Public Schools Can Learn from FedEx
Chris Whittle, founder of Channel One and Edison Schools and author, Crash Course: Imagining A Better Future For Public Education (Riverhead, 2005),
-says it's good to harbor doubts
» Chris Whittle
» Crash Course by Chris Whittle
-says it's good to harbor doubts
» Chris Whittle
» Crash Course by Chris Whittle
30 Issues: Foster Care
Andrew White, director of the Center for New York City Affairs at the Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy at the New School
- on improvements in the city's foster care system and where the new problems lie
» The Center for New ...
- on improvements in the city's foster care system and where the new problems lie
» The Center for New ...
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