That's why we work closely with partners to get the right information into the right hands — those making
important decisions about child welfare practice and policy.
Some students will be attorneys and judges making
decisions about child custody and juvenile justice, tasks which will demand some ability to think critically about developmental issues.
Wherever possible, involve your children
in decisions about child care arrangements because they will also have ideas about where they want to spend their time.
So that broad definition of curriculum suggests that educators make a range
of decisions about children's experience that have quite a direct impact on social and emotional learning opportunities.
You need parental responsibility in order to make
key decisions about your child, such as consent to medical or dental treatment, consent to school trips and taking a child abroad.
However, test questions are written by subjective human beings, too, and test makers consistently state that their tests should not be used to make high -
stakes decisions about children.
There are few experiences that are more emotionally driven than reaching
custodial decisions about children and determining the financial responsibilities of the parents when that decision is made.
In other situations, only one parent may be legally permitted to make important
decisions about the child even though the child will spend a large amount of time living with each parent.
Tell your spouse that divorce mediation allows you to make your
own decisions about your children and your assets rather than turning those decisions over to lawyers and judges.
This means that the child lives with both parents in their separate homes for about the same amount of time, and both parents
share decisions about a child.
The type of custody granted also affects which parent has the final say in
major decisions about the child's upbringing, such as education, religion, and medical care.
Sole legal custody means that only one parent has the authority to make important decisions for the child, while joint legal custody means that both parents have to make all or
most decisions about the child together.
Ultimately, it will be up to actors beyond the state education agency to make the most
critical decisions about a child's journey from early childhood to K - 12 to postsecondary education, training and beyond.