Why This County Is Giving Foster Youth $1,000 A Month, No Strings Attached
The first-in-the-nation program aims to support young people when they age out of the foster care system often with no security net whatsoever.
Sophia spent 21 years in the foster care system, but considers herself lucky.
Now 24, she has created a solid foundation for herself in Santa Clara County, California, studying for a master’s and mentoring other foster youth. But she’s very aware that not everyone coming out of the foster care system has been able to do the same. “Once the final transition has happened, it’s basically like you have no more support,” she told HuffPost.
Georgetown Law Prof Fired for Telling the Truth
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A lot of my lower ones are Blacks : Georgetown professor fired after leaked Zoom call
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Georgetown Law Prof Fired for Telling the Truth
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By Hans Bader | March 11, 2021 | 5:19pm EST
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A law professor at Georgetown University has been fired for pointing out that black students got lower grades in her classes. This was not due to racism. Black students get lower grades at selective colleges because they are admitted with lower grades and test scores than their non-black classmates, due to racial preferences in admissions at schools like Georgetown.
Recipients of non-racial preferences in admissions also get lower grades at the schools that admit them. I received lower than average grades as a student at Harvard Law School. Why? I was admitted with lower-than average credentials than most of my classmates (because I pledged to go into public-interest law afterwards). So I was less prepared than most of my classmates, and occasionally had to struggle to keep up with my clas