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The Palatine Township High School District 211 in Illinois has denied a transgender student's request for full access to the girls' locker room, citing privacy concerns for the other students. The district is Illinois' largest high school district and received $6 million in federal funding last
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Marc Roth Garcia, a junior at District 214 Rolling Meadows High School, was honored for leading a six-day "Cyber Camp" for a dozen High School District 214 students. The camp, held at Wheeling High School, aimed to educate students on cyber security and ethics. Roth Garcia, a member
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The Food and Drug Administration is betting it can adapt the sounds and style of hip-hop culture to discourage African-Americans, Hispanics, and other minority youths from using tobacco. The FDA will spend $128 million on the "Fresh Empire" campaign, which incorporates advertisements, local events, and outreach to try
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has launched a national public education campaign, "Fresh Empire," to prevent and reduce tobacco use among multicultural youth who identify with the hip-hop peer crowd. The campaign focuses on youth ages 12-17 and aims to associate living tobacco-free with a
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An 18-year-old man, Dean Price, has been sentenced to three years and six months in a young offenders' institute for robbing a 17-year-old victim in his own home in January 2014. Price, whose date of birth is July 27, 1997, was convicted on June 16 after a trial at
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Anonymous, a collective of hacker activists, has launched a cyber attack on the Saudi Arabian government in a bid to stop the execution of a teenage boy named Ali Mohammed al-Nimr. Al-Nimr was arrested at the age of 17 for taking part in an anti-government protest and has been sentenced
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The Oberstown youth detention centre in Co Dublin has been plagued by controversy, with 31 staff members assaulted over a four-month period and 11 staff members resigning this year alone. Despite the turmoil, the State has spent nearly €50,000 on luxury items such as Sky Sports subscriptions, TVs, and
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A report by the NT children's commissioner highlighted the use of inhumane and degrading treatment of juveniles at the Don Dale youth detention facility in Darwin, prompting a letter from the human rights law centre to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or
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The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has announced that three state chapters have joined its Practice Improvement to Address Adolescent Substance Use (PIAASU) project to address substance use and mental health concerns in adolescents. The project is made possible through a $1.2 million grant from the Conrad N. Hilton
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Research conducted by the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine suggests that students who used electronic cigarettes by the time they started high school were more likely to report later use of traditional tobacco products. This finding has significant implications for understanding the impact of e-cigarettes on teen
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A recent survey by The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards reveals that volunteering as a teenager can have a profound impact on one's happiness and stress levels. The survey, conducted among 1,200 teenagers, found that nine in 10 teens who volunteer feel good about themselves, and that
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The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards has begun its search for Illinois' top youth volunteers of 2016. Students in grades 5-12 are invited to apply if they have made significant contributions to their communities through volunteer service within the past 12 months. This marks the 21st year of the
