Connections - March 2006

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Connections - March 2006

Connections is your monthly recap of news and information involving kids in America. For weekly updates please subscribe to the CFK Weekly [1]. To unsubscribe please see below.

Vol. 7, Is. 3

March 8 , 2006

Talktime Live! [7]

Articles

Clear Vision for Low-Income Kids [9]
Early detection can be the key to quick and effective treatment...

“The 65 Percent Solution”: School Finance Proposal Energizes and Alarms [10]
The idea is simple: Just require that school districts spend 65 percent of their budgets...

Making Early Developmental Screenings Routine [11]
The more researchers learn about diagnosing and treating developmental delays and disabilities, the clearer the message becomes: the earlier the better.

[12]D.C.’s School Voucher Program: Lessons Learned & Continued Questions [13]
With the nation’s only federally-funded school voucher program well into its second year...

Articles home [14]

More February Articles:
• What’s Next for Kids’ Issues [15]
• A Younger Take on the State of the Union [16]
• Stormy Story
[17] • Teens Learn to Fight for Good Food [18]

Frequently Emailed Articles

• Cyber Bullying: No Muscles Needed [19]
• The Overscheduled Child: Avoiding the Hyper-Parenting Trap [20]
• The Cheapest High [21]

Book Corner

A Love Like No Other
• Book Chat [22] - Feb, 8th.
• Book Review [23]

Upcoming Book Chat
• Carolyn Lehman on Surviving Abuse [24]

As advocates argue we’re spending federal money in all the wrong ways, Congress faces a vote to raise the national debt limit. Action Central has information and action alerts [25].

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