Guest Blog: Bill Banning Corporal Punishment in Schools To Be Introduced in Congress

Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY4), a nurse who has put a heavy emphasis on public health and safety issues since joining Congress in 1997, will on Thursday introduce the “Ending Corporal Punishment in Schools Act,” legislation that aims to end the practice of children being struck or beaten in schools by school personnel.

Guest Blog: US Tracking of Child-Abuse Deaths Is Flawed

America uses flawed methods to tally and analyze the deaths of children who have been maltreated, and the latest annual estimate of 1,770…4.8 children per day…such fatalities is likely too low, the Government Accountability Office says in a new report to Congress.

Better data, says the GAO, would aid in developing strategies that could save many children’s lives in the future.

The GAO report, the subject of a House Human Resources

Vow On Cane Code

The government on Monday assured the high court of taking all measures to stamp out corporal punishment from schools across the state. The government on Monday assured the high court of taking all measures to stamp out corporal punishment from schools across the state.

Government pleader Ashok Banerjee gave the assurance during the hearing of a petition seeking penal action against three teachers of Nopany High School in central Calcutta for allegedly inflicting corporal punishment on a student.

Government pleader Ashok Banerjee gave the assurance during the hearing of a petition seeking penal action against three teachers of Nopany High School in central Calcutta for allegedly inflicting corporal punishment on a student.