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2003 Children Stories

• 12/ 9/2003: Radio Story - State Auditor Claire McCaskill calls the Missouri foster case database shocking. The state also ranks in the bottom third in the nation for reimbursing foster parents.
• 12/ 8/2003: Newspaper Story - State senators have prefiled two bills that will retread foster care issues that were vetoed by the Governor last session.
• 12/ 8/2003: Newspaper Story - Of the $190 million in No Child Left Behind Title I funds, almost none is going to Missouri high schools. Instead, the money is going to lower grades, where it will better improve students' performance, officials say.
• 12/ 8/2003: Newspaper Story - A mock-vote to give gays and lesbians the right to a civil union in Missouri was overwhelmingly passed by high school students acting as senators and house representatives.
• 11/18/2003: Newspaper Story - A women's advocacy group charged Tuesday that state budget cuts are responsible for the decline in the health and welfare of Missouri women.
• 11/17/2003: Newspaper Story - Gov. Holden accused House Republicans for skewing budget figures when they started a petition for Holden to release more money to education due to revenue increases.
• 11/13/2003: Radio Story - Missouri is one of five states that aren't spending any of the money they recieve from tobacco companies on smoking prevention programs.
• 11/ 7/2003: Twenty-one percent of Missouri's homeless youth do not attend school.
• 11/ 7/2003: Newspaper Story - Twenty-one percent of Missouri's homeless youth do not attend school.
• 10/21/2003: Radio Story - U.S. Census Bureau reports more Missourians are without health insurance. Some parents are struggling to provide insurance for their children. A Missouri managed care program, MC+ for Kids is trying to help.
• 10/ 8/2003: Newspaper Story - Missouri is receiving federal funds to help reverse the trend of overweight children. The USDA will give Missouri's Health Department $200,000 to promote healthy eating habits in schools and day cares.
• 10/ 1/2003: Newspaper Story - The Missouri Departments of Mental Health and Social Services are trying out pilot programs to help parents avoid relinquishing custody of their child to the state for mental health treatment.
• 9/24/2003: Radio Story - Democratic Representative Harold Selby introduced a bill during the special session that would place a ten percent tax on campaign contributions. The revenue would help fund public education.
• 9/18/2003: Radio Story - Kansas City authorities are searching for the parents of an abandoned newborn found in a shoe box this week.
• 9/16/2003: Radio Story - A Kansas City court says the new state agency charged with collecting child support doesn't have the legal authority to file new child support cases.
• 9/ 2/2003: Radio Story - Half of school districts aren't meeting their targets for improving students' test scores.
• 5/16/2003: Newspaper Story - While it started out as a bill to crack down on the state's child welfare system, it became a bill to protect both parents and children.
• 5/15/2003: Radio Story - A vote in the senate will send legislation to the governor that's supposed to change the state's child protective system.
• 5/12/2003: Newspaper Story - The Senate passed a House bill Monday that would require the state to privatize at least 50 percent of its foster care system by 2006.
• 5/ 8/2003: Newspaper Story - Missouri law provides stronger oversight of farm animals and pets than children housed in some child-care residential centers.
• 5/ 1/2003: Newspaper Story - House and Senate pass 24-hour wait on abortion
• 4/29/2003: Newspaper Story - The Senate passed a bill that would make Medicaid services available only if money is appropriated.
• 4/23/2003: Radio Story - During floor debate on the budget, Dougherty debated the merits of a program that helps the kids become self-sufficient.
• 4/21/2003: Radio Story - Eighteen-year-olds in Missouri can die while serving in Iraq but currently cannot serve on state juries.
• 4/17/2003: Newspaper Story - House passes Speaker Hanaway's foster care bill
• 4/ 9/2003: Radio Story - Dougherty is behind a bill that would require license-exempt religious organizations to comply with state safety standards
• 4/ 9/2003: Newspaper Story - As students around the country observed a Day of Silence Wednesday in support of making schools safer for gay students, the attention at the state Capitol turned to legislation that opponents say would move in the opposite direction. The House Education Committee has passed a measure that would prohibit school districts from having stricter non-discrimination clauses than those mandated by state and federal government.
• 4/ 9/2003: Radio Story - The bill deals with the state's abuse hotline, criminal background checks, and case worker liability.
• 4/ 9/2003: Newspaper Story - A bill that would make it easier to fire Division of Family Services workers who don't follow department policy was given preliminary approval by the House.
• 4/ 7/2003: Newspaper Story - A bill in the House Crime Committee would make selling a child illegal for all reasons.
• 3/31/2003: Newspaper Story - The Supreme Court Commission on Children's Justice released a draft report Monday, which included recommendations for higher salaries and lower case loads for DFS workers. The recommendations came from each of the four committee work groups.
• 3/19/2003: Newspaper Story - Following the deaths of 2-year-olds Dominic James and Constance Porter, legislators have introduced bills to revise Missouri's foster care and juvenile justice systems. The proposals cover issues from the state child abuse hot line to the juvenile court system.
• 3/ 6/2003: Radio Story - The Senate gave first round approval to a bill that makes it illegal for minors to travel to other states for abortions without parental consent laws.
• 3/ 6/2003: Radio Story - The Senate gave first round approval to a bill that would make it illegal for minors to enter other states in order to avoid Missouri's parental consent law.
• 2/26/2003: Newspaper Story - A House appropriations committee voted to eliminate the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), which provides coverage to about 80,000 Missouri children.
• 2/24/2003: Newspaper Story - The Commission on Children's Justice is searching for solutions to the juvenile justice system problems by forming small working groups. The commission's preliminary findings will be published in a report due out by March 28.
• 2/ 5/2003: Newspaper Story - A bill to create a state-wide system for abduction alerts moved closer to becoming state law Wednesday. The Senate gave preliminary approval to the bill, which would establish the "Alert Missouri System."
• 2/ 3/2003: Radio Story - Some Lawmakers met with representatives of Missouri's juvenile justice system.