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Girl, 6, dead in apparent overdose of father’s antidepressants
- An apparent overdose of prescription antidepressants has taken the life of a little girl, and D.C.’s teetering child welfare agency is once again trying to explain how it missed warning signs she was in danger.
District must overhaul child protection agency
- S harlynn Bobo tendered her resignation as head of the District’s Child and Family Services Agency just one day after she refused to accept responsibility for the deaths of two infants under her supervision. Bobo’s sudden departure briefly raised hopes that Mayor Adrian Fenty was finally going to overhaul the troubled child protection agency, hopes that were soon dashed when he selected Roque Gerald, Bobo’s deputy, as interim director.
D.C. child welfare head resigns leaving backlog, uncertain future for agency
- Turning around D.C.’s child welfare agency will demand strong leadership, accountability and resources that the troubled department has long lacked, District officials said in the wake of the office director’s resignation.
Infant under CFSA watch dies
- Another infant whose care was the subject a D.C. child welfare agency investigation died Monday, hours before the D.C. Council was to convene a hearing on the failings of the District’s tormented child protective services department.
Proposed homeschool restrictions draw criticism from across U.S.
- Calls from across the country have been flooding into the D.C. State Superintendent’s Office from families who are profoundly unhappy about the proposed restrictions on homeschooling.
Tribute paid to Jacks’ two youngest daughters
- Pink teddy bears sat atop 4-foot coffins at the Tuesday funeral of two children whose tragic deaths jolted D.C. into reform of its child welfare system.
- Pink teddy bears sat atop 4-foot coffins at the Tuesday funeral of two children whose tragic deaths jolted D.C. into reform of its child welfare system.
After 4 girls’ slayings, welfare agency floods family court with abuse cases
- Stung by revelations that they may have abandoned four girls to the mercy of a deranged mother, D.C. child welfare bureaucrats have flooded the city courts with abuse and neglect cases, an Examiner analysis found.
Report faults contractors paid $7.6M to care for District’s foster children
- Contractors paid millions of dollars to look after D.C.’s foster children aren’t conducting criminal background checks on their staff, ignoring requirements to plan for their wards’ schooling and health care and not keeping track of children wandering in and out of their facilities, a new report has found.
Scaled-back homeschooling rules still criticized
- New proposed rules for D.C. homeschoolers are much less strict than controversial regulations vetted earlier this spring, but still are causing some families to feel overburdened, sources told The Examiner.
Open cases at D.C. child welfare swells to 'historic' 2,000
- An overwhelmed D.C. child welfare agency has been hard-pressed to close 2,000 investigations into possible child abuse as the District's elected leaders roll out a slate of reforms to improve the city's response to abuse allegations.
Schools look for hundreds of truants
- A city investigation spurred by the deaths of four young girls earlier this year found that the D.C. school system can’t account for hundreds of students who were cut from attendance rolls late last year, The Examiner has learned.
‘Shameful’ profiteering over four dead sisters
- Am I wrong, or is there something fundamentally uncivilized and downright infuriating for Norman Penn, who fathered B.J. Jacks, to sue the city for $25 million because, as he alleges, the city failed to protect his daughter?
Bad guys talk tough to keep bad boys from jail
- Some of the city’s baddest ex-cons got together with some of our top ex-cops Monday at Ballou Senior High to try and shock the school’s bad boys into staying out of trouble.
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