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Ohio University researchers want to help teachers manage behavioral issues in the classroom
By: David Forster
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ATHENS, Ohio (WOUB) — Educators face enough challenges on a day-to-day basis as is. Behavioral issues in the classroom are just one thing reducing instructional time. Julie Owens is a professor… Read More
Sixteen children rescued from a Vinton County home shared a small room. ‘I can still smell it,’ attorney general says
By: David Forster
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ATHENS, Ohio (WOUB) — Sixteen children rescued from a home in Vinton County on Tuesday were living in a small room contaminated with human feces. “Most of our livestock was… Read More
A panel of federal judges upholds Ohio’s age verification law on social media and websites
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — A federal court in Cincinnati has upheld a 2024 state law requiring age verification on social media and websites for kids under 16, ending the… Read More
Athens City Council considers new equipment and surface for a community center playground
By: Simon Molloy
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ATHENS, Ohio (WOUB) — The City Council is proposing an upgrade to the pre-K playground behind the Athens Community Center. The proposal right now is to replace the playground equipment… Read More
How the Garden of Joy Culinary Academy is teaching nonviolence through cooking classes
By: Isabel Nissley | WVXU
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CINCINNATI (WVXU) — Every day at the Garden of Joy Culinary Academy starts with a mindfulness circle. Before teens put on aprons and start chopping veggies, they grab fruit patterned… Read More
A teen’s death motivates an Ohio bill to restrict kids’ access to online gaming
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Two Ohio lawmakers have introduced a bill to more strictly regulate minors’ access to online gaming, two months after the death of Hailey Buzbee,… Read More
The kids’ vision initiative OhioSEE comes into focus in 15 counties
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — For what might be the first time, the Prairie Lincoln Elementary School library came fully into focus Tuesday afternoon for second-grader Tesannya and six… Read More
A landmark trial accusing social media companies of addicting children to their platforms begins
By: Kaitlyn Huamani | Barbara Ortutay | AP
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The world’s biggest social media companies face several landmark trials this year that seek to hold them responsible for harms to children who use their platforms…. Read More
Years after reporting her abuser, one Ohioan gains closure
By: Matthew Richmond | Ideastream Public Media
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CLEVELAND (Ideastream Public Media) — Yarenci Hernandez’s abuse started the night she met her father. Born in Mexico City, she lived with neighbors until, when she was about seven or… Read More
Ohio students are being strip searched – and traumatized – over minor offenses
By: Kendall Crawford | The Ohio Newsroom
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CINCINNATI (The Ohio Newsroom) — Across the country, children and teenagers are being strip searched by school administrators and staff, who are often looking for vape pens or other minor contraband…. Read More
Meta, TikTok and YouTube face a landmark trial over youth addiction claims
By: Barbara Ortutay | AP
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Three of the world’s biggest tech companies face a landmark trial in Los Angeles starting this week over claims that their platforms — Meta’s Instagram, ByteDance’s TikTok and Google’s YouTube… Read More
The number of kids in foster care in Ohio is at a nine-year low, but costs are soaring
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — There are fewer kids in foster care in Ohio than there have been in almost a decade. And while that’s good news for those children… Read More
Here’s when the government shutdown will affect SNAP, Head Start and military pay
By: Meg Kinnard | AP
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With the federal government shutdown nearing the one-month mark, Americans are starting to see the cascading effects of programs shuttered by lapses in federal funding. Some states are scrambling to… Read More
The number of Ohio children without insurance has risen. Experts say it could grow
By: Kendall Crawford | The Ohio Newsroom
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CINCINNATI (The Ohio Newsroom) — Ohio has seen an increase in the number of children without health insurance since the unwinding of pandemic-era Medicaid continuous coverage. From 2022 to 2024,… Read More
The cost of child care is burdening Ohio’s families and economy. What can be done?
By: Erin Gottsacker | The Ohio Newsroom
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KNOX COUNTY, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — Ohio’s economy loses $5 billion dollars each year due to insufficient child care coverage, according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation. In… Read More
Foster care placement costs are ballooning across Ohio. Here’s why
By: Erin Gottsacker | The Ohio Newsroom
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TOLEDO, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — In Lucas County, home to the city of Toledo, the cost to place children in foster care is soaring. The county pays upwards of… Read More
An Ohio lawmaker has renewed hopes for a bill to allow K-12 kids to take ‘mental health’ days
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — A bill that would allow students at K-12 schools in Ohio to take days off to deal with mental health issues is going to be… Read More
Ohio eye doctors say they see the $10M OhioSEE kids’ vision initiative as a lifeline
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Under the biennial state budget, the Ohio Department of Health got $10 million for a new eyesight initiative, the Ohio Student Eye Exam (SEE)… Read More
Ohio lawmakers will take a second crack at online age verification
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Ohio lawmakers will try again to pass age verification provisions regulating major technology companies, this time targeting application stores rather than individual apps. Sen…. Read More
Despite improvements, Ohio still has among the worst infant mortality rates in the nation
By: Erin Gottsacker | The Ohio Newsroom
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AKRON, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — A decade ago, one ZIP code in Akron had the highest infant mortality rate in the country. The rest of Ohio wasn’t faring much… Read More
The poverty rate in Ohio stays steady, but agencies are concerned about kids in low-income families
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The poverty rate in Ohio stayed steady from last year, but the number of children living in poverty is concerning the state’s community action… Read More
Southeast Ohio will soon have its first women and children’s hospital
By: Erin Gottsacker | The Ohio Newsroom
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BELPRE, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — Memorial Health System, headquartered in southeast Ohio, broke ground on a new hospital Tuesday. Once built, it’ll be the only women and children’s hospital… Read More
Ohio has mandated schools follow the science of reading. Many southeast Ohio schools were one step ahead
By: Theo Peck-Suzuki | Report for America
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JACKSONVILLE, Ohio (WOUB/Report for America) — Sommer McCorkle knew early on that her son was behind in reading. “We had been working with a tutor, and I was working with… Read More
Ohio wants more foster kids to stay with families. A pilot program could help
By: Erin Gottsacker | The Ohio Newsroom
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SANDUSKY COUNTY, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — Samantha Stewart always wanted a big family, so over the past few years, the door to her home has been rotating. She and… Read More
The Kentucky House passed a bill meant to crack down on electronic cigarette sales to minors
By: Bruce Schreiner | AP
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Legislation aimed at cracking down on illegal electronic cigarette sales to young people and keeping unauthorized vaping products out of stores won passage in the Kentucky House… Read More
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