“It is a huge, historic move for California,” said Katie Bliss, higher education coordinator at the San Francisco-based Youth Law Center. Bliss spent time in the San Mateo County juvenile hall ...

Some of the most needy youth in the region are not receiving an education they deserve, according to the official in charge of their care. Those teens are confined at Lake County Juvenile ...

On any given day, 60,000 kids are in secure juvenile justice facilities around the country. Thousands more pass through the system each year. Many of these kids are already failing in school ...

While problems of juvenile offenders are very complex, studies show teaching kids to read well in the early grades and strong literacy instruction for those incarcerated can stem the dropout ...

When it comes to education, juveniles who spend time in prisons or prison-like settings fare far worse than any others in their age group. A nationwide survey of the juvenile justice system ...

The Mississippi Department of Education has budgeted $1 million in state funds per year for educating juveniles in 15 detention centers. In the 2011-12 school year, Mississippi spent an additional ...

The U.S. Supreme Court today took up took the cases of offenders sentenced to life in prison without parole for crimes they committed as juveniles. Nearly two hours of arguments covered such ...

WASHINGTON (AP) – Attorney General Eric Holder and Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Monday unveiled new guidance aimed at improving the quality of education for roughly 60,000 confined ...

Most of the kids who enter the juvenile justice system — 72 percent last fiscal year — are boys. Rothenberg said school is a tough thing for teen boys, especially when facing decades locked up.

Chief Juvenile Probation Officer for Lubbock County William Carter said a new facility at the Juvenile Justice Center is allowing Lubbock County to focus more on education for young offenders who ...

Juveniles constitute 1,200 of the 1.5 ... these kids are less likely than their counterparts imprisoned in juvenile centers to get the vocational training and education they need in order to ...

On any given day, 60,000 kids are in secure juvenile justice facilities around the country. Thousands more pass through the system each year. Many of these kids are already failing in school ...