Bipartisan Panel Urges More Federal Funding To Curb Youth Violence
Education leaders last week largely applauded a bipartisan congressional panel's report on youth violence that recommends more federal money be given to schools to hire mental-health workers and identify potential schoolyard killers. But Capitol Hill leaders omitted what some educators see as a crucial ingredient in decreasing youth-violence rates: curbing minors' access to guns.
The 24-member panel—appointed by Speaker of the House J. Dennis Hastert, R- Ill., and House Minority Leader Richard A. Gephardt, D-Mo., soon after the shootings at Columbine High School in Colorado last April—said that many factors, from abusive homes to exposure to violent media, could lead young people to commit violent acts.
Among the group's extensive list of recommendations to Congress for combatting youth violence are early-intervention programs, such as Head Start, which research suggests can help...
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