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Mississippi school district agrees to not handcuff students to objects - Chicago Tribune awe.sm/5tj64 about 9 hours ago via Timely by Demandforce
Confronting challenges of American education, 'civil rights issue' of our time by @PedroANoguera – CNN awe.sm/5ti36 about 12 hours ago via Timely by Demandforce
Foster Care Youth Can Benefit Greatly from ACA, but Need Advocates to Make Sure They Do - @GeorgetownCCF - awe.sm/5tiAD #fostercare about 14 hours ago via Timely by Demandforce
forsakengen I got phone calls about two homeless families — a single dad with a 7-year old and a single mom with a 5-year old ow.ly/b9cp1 about 17 hours ago via HootSuite Retweeted by brucelesley and 1 other
First_Focus Top 10 Things You Should Know About Texas’s Demographic Changes - Ctr for American Progress awe.sm/5tiMQ #ChildrenOfSouthwest about 15 hours ago via Timely by Demandforce Retweeted by brucelesley and 1 other
Top 10 Things You Should Know About Texas’s Demographic Changes - Ctr for American Progress awe.sm/5tiMQ #ChildrenOfSouthwest about 15 hours ago via Timely by Demandforce
Police, suspensions in schools need reform, new report urges | Center for Public Integrity iwatchnews.org/2012/05/24/895… about 16 hours ago via Tweet Button
More States ratify optional protocols to UN convention on children’s rights - UN News Service awe.sm/5tiG9 #childrights about 18 hours ago via Timely by Demandforce
What about the 'war on kids'? by Bruce Kluger – USA Today awe.sm/5thzT about 18 hours ago via Timely by Demandforce
RT @KidsHaveRights2 - @GovCorbett cuts $1BN from budget; pushes Charter Schools due to short staffing. Money going to Boston not Phila. about 20 hours ago via web in reply to KidsHaveRights2
billshore "Churches alone cannot protect the poor" David Beckman's compelling arguments agst cuts in #SNAP #foodstamps @ ow.ly/b7pxL #hunger 3:22 AM May 24th via HootSuite Retweeted by brucelesley and 19 others
RT @billshore "No Holiday from #Hunger": Marian Wright Edelman on why children are so vulnerable in summer ow.ly/banWp about 20 hours ago via web in reply to billshore
GregKaufmann "So Rich, So Poor": Peter Edelman on Ending U.S. #Poverty bit.ly/KBxnO6 @democracynow 6:15 AM May 24th via Tweet Button Retweeted by brucelesley and 1 other
Aequitas317 "So Rich, So Poor": Peter Edelman on Ending U.S. Poverty & Why He Left Clinton Admin over Welfare Law | bit.ly/JkYopR @democracynow about 21 hours ago via Tweet Button Retweeted by brucelesley and 1 other
RT @TCBGP Dear @arneduncan : Multiple choice does not produce critical thinkers. about 20 hours ago via Twitterrific
The Danger in School Spending Cuts - NYTimes.com nytimes.com/2012/05/26/opi… #InvestInKids about 21 hours ago via Tweet Button
States urged to do better in aiding grandparents, other relatives who fill child-raising void | The Republic awe.sm/5tZDT @AECFNews 3:27 AM May 26th via Timely by Demandforce
Kinship care beats foster care for raising kids – support needed - CSMonitor.com awe.sm/5tZCc @AECFNews 2:10 AM May 26th via Timely by Demandforce
Katie Beckett, Who Inspired Health Reform, Dies at 34 - NYTimes.com awe.sm/5tZ9o Rest In Peace Katie! 10:53 PM May 25th via Timely by Demandforce
@Ike_Farmer Yes, GZ may have wanted to only citizen arrest him for...being a black kid, but should be charged for murder for killing him. 3:44 AM May 25th via Twitter for BlackBerry® in reply to Ike_Farmer

Name Bruce Lesley
Location Bethesda, MD / Washington DC
Web http://www.firstf...
Bio President of First Focus (@First_Focus & @Campaign4Kids). Child advocacy, health policy. Father of 4. Basketball fanatic. Views expressed are mine alone.