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		<title>School Health &amp; Wellness News Roundup: Week of May 21, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 15:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From this week&#8217;s news: A Dire Sign of the Obesity Epidemic: Teen Diabetes Soaring, Study Finds NPR: Public health experts have been worrying for years that the obesity epidemic would lead to an epidemic of Type 2 diabetes among kids. For the first time, researchers have direct evidence that those fears are coming true. Researchers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cityconnectsblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13456139&#038;post=2059&#038;subd=cityconnectsblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Report Shows 2.7 Million US Children Raised by Relatives and Family Friends</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 15:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new report by the Annie E. Casey Foundation shows an increase in children living with relatives or family friends, so-called &#8220;kinship care,&#8221; because their parents can no longer care for them. This year, 2.7 million children, about 4% of all US children, were raised in kinship care&#8211;an18% jump over the past decade. Circumstances leading [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cityconnectsblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13456139&#038;post=2069&#038;subd=cityconnectsblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Recruiting: City Connects Springfield</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 17:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Springfield Public Schools is now recruiting for School Site Coordinator positions at three Springfield, Mass., middle schools. This is an exciting expansion for City Connects into the middle school level! Check out the job description here.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cityconnectsblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13456139&#038;post=2064&#038;subd=cityconnectsblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>School Health &amp; Wellness News Update: Week of May 14, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 15:57:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From this week&#8217;s news: Unvaccinated kids booted from Pa. classrooms AP: Get stuck or get out. That&#8217;s the message Pennsylvania school districts gave to students and their parents this year as they approached a deadline to comply with new state vaccination rules. Officials are still working to reach hundreds of students around Pennsylvania who have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cityconnectsblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13456139&#038;post=2056&#038;subd=cityconnectsblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>City Connects Springfield Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 14:39:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[City Connects&#8217; work in Springfield Public Schools (SPS) was featured in the Spring 2012 issue  [pdf] of the Springfield Educator. The conclusion of this school year marks the first year of City Connects&#8217; implementation in six transformation (Level 4) SPS elementary schools. Next year, three SPS Level 4 middle schools will also be implementing City [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cityconnectsblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13456139&#038;post=2029&#038;subd=cityconnectsblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>School Health &amp; Wellness News Roundup: Week of May 7, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 13:53:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Form this week&#8217;s news: Districts Draw the Line on School Meal Debt EdWeek: School districts have resorted to hiring debt collectors, employing constables, and swapping out standard meals for scaled-back versions to try to coerce parents to pay off school lunch debt that, in recent years, appears to have surged as the result of a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cityconnectsblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13456139&#038;post=2019&#038;subd=cityconnectsblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>School Health &amp; Wellness News Roundup: Week of April 30, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 15:49:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From this week&#8217;s news: Preventable Injuries Sideline One-Third of Young Athletes HealthDay News: One in three American children who plays team sports suffers injuries severe enough to require medical treatment, according to a national survey released by Safe Kids. Family dinners healthier for kids UPI: More than 40 percent of the typical U.S. food budget [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cityconnectsblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13456139&#038;post=2015&#038;subd=cityconnectsblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>School Health &amp; Wellness News Roundup: Week of April 23, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:44:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From this week&#8217;s news: Obesity rates dropping among Mass. infants, toddlers Boston Globe: After a three-decade tripling in childhood obesity rates, the trend has leveled off and, for the first time, appears to be on a substantial decline &#8211; at least among Massachusetts infants and preschoolers, according to a study published in Pediatrics. Researchers found [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cityconnectsblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13456139&#038;post=1972&#038;subd=cityconnectsblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Orchard Gardens School Tapped by White House for Arts Program</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:49:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Orchard Gardens K-8 School, a City Connects School in Boston&#8217;s Roxbury neighborhood, was tapped yesterday to participate in the Turnaround Arts Initiative, an effort of the President&#8217;s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. The Turnaround Arts Initiative launched in eight persistently underperforming, or &#8220;turnaround,&#8221; schools across the country. The two-year initiative pairs celebrities with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cityconnectsblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13456139&#038;post=1975&#038;subd=cityconnectsblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>School Health &amp; Wellness News Roundup: Week of April 16, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:53:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From this week&#8217;s news: Attention Problems May Be Sleep-Related New York Times Well blog: The latest study suggesting a link between inadequate sleep and ADHD symptoms appeared last month in the journal Pediatrics. Researchers followed 11,000 British children for six years, starting when they were 6 months old. The children whose sleep was affected by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cityconnectsblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13456139&#038;post=1964&#038;subd=cityconnectsblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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