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		<title>The War on Tater Tots: Enlisting Daycare Centers in the Fight Against Childhood Obesity</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 12:38:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jackie Mader / The Hechinger Report</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The childcare centers Debbie Ellis owns in Greenwood, Miss., used to serve instant potatoes, chocolate pudding and fried food. Now she has a caterer prepare meals with whole grains and vegetables. And thanks to subsidies from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, she’s actually saving money by offering her kids healthier fare. They don’t have as much fun eating it, she says, “but we do have good quality.” There have been a lot of stories this year about the USDA’s new nutrition requirements for school lunches, which started to kick in this fall. But less attention has been paid to places like Mississippi – which has the highest rate of childhood poverty and childhood obesity in the U.S. – where efforts are underway to help kids form better eating habits before they even reach elementary school. (MORE: Why Childhood Obesity Rates Are Dropping in Some Cities) Childcare centers are in a unique position to combat the problem since obesity usually begins between the ages of 5 and 6, according to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. That’s why it’s essential to introduce children to a healthy diet as early as possible, says Geraldine Henchy, director of nutrition policy at the Food Research and Action Center in Washington. “They’re in childcare the majority of working days, and that’s where they’re really going to get nutrition and learn good eating habits.” The new menus at Ellis’s daycare centers are approved by the federally funded Child and Adult Care Food Program, which reimburses centers for the cost of serving children a more nutritious diet. Ellis enrolled her two centers six years ago and, as a result, is saving more than $1,600 on food each month. But despite the obvious health and financial benefits, less than half of childcare centers across the U.S. participate in the program, which the USDA has acknowledged can place an undue burden on childcare centers. To enroll, directors must attend two days of training; in Mississippi, these are usually held in Jackson, which is more than 100 miles<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=99622&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Worst “School-to-Prison” Pipeline: Was it in Mississippi?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 23:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elisabeth Kauffman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do these school kids have in common? The teenage girl with a bladder disorder who left class without permission, ignoring a teacher and racing for a bathroom rather than wet herself; the boy who was rude to a school administrator; another who was tardy. They are children of color who, as a result of breaking minor school rules, were allegedly arrested and thrown into a juvenile detention facility in Meridian, Mississippi. It appears to be the most blatant case in a nationwide phenomenon that the U.S. Department of Justice, in a 37-page lawsuit, calls a &#8220;school-to-prison pipeline.&#8221; Following an eight-month investigation and a two-month warning period, the Justice Department in October filed a civil rights lawsuit against the city of Meridian, Lauderdale County, the Mississippi Department of Youth Services (DYS) and local Youth Court judges Frank Coleman and Veldore Young for violating the Fourth, Fifth and 14th Amendment rights of Meridian public school children. (MORE: In Mississippi, Will Competition Cure Head Start—or Kill It?) For six years or so, at least 77 children, some as young as 10 &#8211; all of them &#8220;children of color,&#8221; says Jody Owens, with the Southern Poverty Law Center&#8211;were routinely arrested at Meridian schools allegedly on the say-so of teachers or administrators, handcuffed and taken to jail where they were held for days on end without benefit of a hearing, a lawyer, or understanding their Miranda rights. Their parents or guardians weren&#8217;t notified of the arrests until the children were in lockdown in a facility the SPLC says was a hellhole of abuse and neglect. During a speech in April, Thomas Perez, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, said students told him &#8220;of being escorted from school for crying while being paddled&#8221; and &#8220;of serving time in in-school suspension for wearing the wrong color socks.&#8221; In the case of disabled students, some were arrested for behavior symptomatic of the very illnesses that made them require special education plans. In most of these incidents, Owens says the children<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=97957&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Mississippi, Will Competition Cure Head Start—or Kill It?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2012 13:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Garland / The Hechinger Report </dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a sunny afternoon in October, the staff at the Singing River Head Start center in Lucedale, Miss., put on a show. It was Head Start Awareness Month (designated by President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s), and they wanted to mark the occasion. Children filed into the hall and watched enthralled as the educational manager, Tina Brown, led her all-female staff in a raucous rendition of a song, “Every Child Should Have a Head Start,” that felt more tent revival than schoolhouse. Hands clapped, feet stomped and the children sang along when they got to the chorus: “Let’s keep Head Start rolling.” Despite their enthusiasm, the staff here has little reason to celebrate. In late 2011, the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), the federal agency that runs the Head Start program, cracked down on Singing River and 131 other centers in the U.S. as part of a new nationwide project to improve the quality of early childhood education. The agency has estimated that every year about one third of Head Start programs being evaluated under new rules will fail to meet a set of quality markers. (The nation’s 1,600 Head Start programs are reviewed every three years, so not every center has been subjected to the new rules yet.) Those falling short, like Singing River, must compete for grants that used to be reissued almost automatically. In December, Singing River will find out whether it will receive more federal funding or if it will be forced to close next year. (MORE: Why Mississippi&#8217;s Students Start Behind—And Stay Behind) The hope is that a jolt of competition will cure some of the problems facing the nearly $8 billion Head Start program, which was started in the 1960s as a preschool program for children living in poverty and now serves about 900,000 low-income children from birth to age five. Much of the concern about Head Start quality stems from a federal study begun in 2000 that found disappearing gains for Head Start children. In the study, children enrolled in Head Start<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=96135&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sex Education in Mississippi: Will a New Law Lower Teen Pregnancy Rates?</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2012/09/21/sex-education-in-mississippi-will-a-new-law-lower-teen-pregnancy-rates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2012 16:50:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Carr / The Hechinger Report</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TUNICA, Miss. — During the four years Ashley McKay attended Rosa Fort High School in Tunica, Miss., her sex education consisted mainly of an instructor listing different sexually transmitted diseases. &#8220;There was no curriculum,&#8221; she says. &#8220;The teacher, an older gentleman who was also the football coach, would tell us, &#8216;If you get AIDS, you&#8217;re gonna die. Pick out your casket, because you&#8217;re gonna die.&#8221; The scare tactic backfired. Baby showers were frequent occurrences during her time at Rosa Fort. McKay, now 24 and executive director of the non-profit Tunica Teens in Action, says between 15 and 20 students in her graduating class of 106 already had children, and that just included the girls. Marilyn Young, the president of the district&#8217;s school board, agreed the district had no formal approach to teaching sex education when McKay was a student—a gap she and others are working hard to change. Located in the northwestern corner of Mississippi, Tunica County posted the highest teen birth rate in the state in recent years, according to data from the Mississippi State Department of Health. The state, meanwhile, consistently posts the highest teen birth rate in the country. In 2011, 55 of every 1,000 teenage girls in Mississippi gave birth, compared to a low of 16 per 1,000 in New Hampshire. But a new law aims to improve sex education in Mississippi—or at the very least make every public school district in Mississippi start teaching it. The law lets districts choose from several curricula and decide which grades should teach sex education. For now, all of the districts in Mississippi appear to be focusing on middle and high school. About half of U.S. states mandate some sort of sex education. (MORE: Mississippi Learning: Why the State&#8217;s Students Start Behind — and Stay Behind) The Mississippi law puts some severe restrictions on schools, however. They must, for example, allow families to opt out of sex education. Boys and girls must be taught separately. And instructors cannot show students how to put on a condom or discuss abortion.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=85838&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Mississippi&#8217;s Students Start Behind — and Stay Behind</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2012 19:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liz Willen / The Hechinger Report</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first in a series in which The Hechinger Report is teaming up with TIME to examine what&#8217;s behind the woeful performance of Mississippi&#8217;s schoolchildren, as well as possible solutions to help them catch up<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=96207&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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