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A shaky report card: Less than half of Kentucky kindergartners are ready for the classroom 14news.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from 14news.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Daviess County has improved in economic security for children, but has fallen in kindergarten readiness despite efforts from local organizations, according to the Kentucky Youth Advocates’ (KYA) 2023 KIDS COUNT
Community development leader Rodney Berry dies at age 68 owensborotimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from owensborotimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Child advocates release legislative priorities messenger-inquirer.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from messenger-inquirer.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
For example, one of the coalitionâs goals is to establish a minimum age at which a child can be charged with a criminal offense. Last year, the youngest child charged with an offense was 8 years old, said Cortney Downs, a policy and advocacy director for Kentucky Youth Advocates. The coalition is advocating legislators to establish a minimum age of 12 years for a juvenile to be charged with a crime. That change would impact how Blacks juveniles are treated because they are disproportionately charged with crimes compared to white children. KYA statistics in Jefferson County, for example, found that Blacks make up 68% of criminal charges filed against juveniles under age 13, although Blacks make up only 29% of the countyâs juvenile population of that age group.