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Federal Court Ruling

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MARYLAND STATE OF MARYLAND, et al.,                       *             Plaintiffs,                                                  * v.                                                                           *                Civ. No. DLB-25-1363 CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND            * COMMUNITY SERVICE, operating as…..

AmeriCorps Publishes 2025 National Service Reports

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Mar 13, 2025 The latest national service reports detail the AmeriCorps footprint across all 50 states, Washington, DC, and U.S. territories. WASHINGTON, DC— AmeriCorps, the federal agency for national service and volunteerism, released today the 2025 National Service Reports……

AmeriCorps funding restored temporarily

Alamoza Citizen Own Woods June 5 2025 U.S. District Court Judge Deborah L. Boardman on Thursday issued an 86-page preliminary injunction stating the Trump Administration must restore millions of dollars in AmeriCorps grant funding and the employment of thousands of its service…..

Judge Orders Reinstatement of AmeriCorps Programs in 24 States

NYT June 6th Zach Montague A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s wholesale dismantling of AmeriCorps, an independent federal agency that facilitates public community service opportunities, reversing the termination of its grants and volunteer network across 24…..

How to Lend a Child Confidence

Published on September 9, 2021 | Updated on June 6, 2025 The School of Life A near-universal goal of parents is to try to imbue their children with confidence; to try to lend them the energy, self-belief and courage to eventually be…..

An after-school program in Trump’s backyard struggles to survive DOGE cuts

By Teo Armus Washington Post June 2nd 2025 It would have been hard to see much of a crisis brewing at the Arlington Mill Community Center, given the joyful stream of middle-schoolers bolting inside last month. But it was there in…..

A big administration cutback went nearly unnoticed

Alvarado /For The Washington Post) By Sabrina Malhi May27th 2025 When Florenzo Cribbs walked into the Perry Family Free Clinic each week in Madison, Wisconsin, Parker Kuehni and his colleagues erupted in applause. It is a tradition there. Every patient who shows upis…..

Don’t let AmeriCorps die. It saved my life

I was 13 years old when I caused the accidental death of a friend. That’s the kind of sentence that stops people in their tracks and it should. I remember the silence that followed, not just from the world around…..

Has America Given Up on Children’s Learning?

By Dana Goldstein Dana Goldstein has been reporting on education since 2007. May 10, 2025 What happened to learning as a national priority? For decades, both Republicans and Democrats strove to be seen as champions of student achievement. Politicians believed pushing…..

What this Government doesn’t know about the cost of raising kids

Washington Post Monica Hesse April 30th 2025 Until I reached a kid-having age, I might have guessed that the priciest child-related expense was diapers. This was based on a blissful ignorance of parenting math that can be found only in…..