PRWORA was passed under Gingrich's House. Maybe the Republicans forgot about their role in placing adults to work REGARDLESS of the age of their children. Then again, it was Newt and his Vatican wife that wanted children cleaning toilets in school. So, who knows what they are thinking now?!?
January 11, 2018
By Amy Goldstein
The Trump administration (click here) issued guidance to states early Thursday that will allow them to compel people to work or prepare for jobs in order to receive Medicaid for the first time in the half-century history of this pillar of the nation’s social safety net.
The letter to state Medicaid directors opens the door for states to cut off Medicaid benefits to Americans unless they have a job, are in school, are a caregiver or participate in other approved forms of “community engagement” — an idea that some states had broached over the past several years but that the Obama administration had consistently rebuffed.
The new policy comes as 10 states are already lined up, waiting for federal permission to impose work requirements on able-bodied adults in the program. Three other states are contemplating them. Health officials could approve the first waiver — probably for Kentucky — as soon as Friday, according to two people with knowledge of the process.
The guidance represents a fundamental and much-disputed recalibration of the compact between the government and poor Americans for whom Medicaid coverage provides a crucial pathway to health care....
Maybe American students trapped in Charter Schools are required to be responsible for the school's health certificate. The Armadillo Technical Institute should be shut down as they don't have a janitor. The janitor can be the Board of Directors and/or the principal.
April 4, 2015
Back in 2011, (click here) Newt Gingrich was running for president, and he proposed a radical idea to help schools cut costs: Fire the janitors and pay students to do the cleaning.
Needless to say, the idea to turn students into moonlighting janitors had about as much support as Gingrich's presidential campaign.
But ask Kim De Costa and she'll say there isn't anything radical about asking students to clean up after themselves. At her school, there are no janitors. Instead, students in grades 6-12 meet in teams once or twice a week to clean assigned areas.
De Costa is the executive director of the Armadillo Technical Institute. It's a public charter school in Phoenix, Ore., a few miles from the California border.
For 30 minutes after lunch, students sweep, mop, take out the trash and even clean the bathrooms — but responsibilities rotate so no one is stuck scrubbing toilets more than two or three times a year....
A janitor's job description. When working in schools, janitors usually are required to hold a certificate that proves they understand what exactly clean means including aseptic techniques. Young children performing labor is illegal.
Clean vertical and horizontal surfaces that collect dust. Cleans tops of windows, doorframes, TV’s, and other high places, using ladder when necessary. Dusts, cleans and polishes furniture.
Responsible for cleaning bathrooms and replacing supplies, such as paper-towels, soaps and toilet paper as needed.
Dispose all linen and trash in the appropriate manner.
Mop floors in all areas on a daily basis. Cleans floors by dry buffing with use of buffing machine, scrubber, extractor, and approved chemical cleaning methods. Strips and wax floors on a quarterly basis.
Perform other job related duties as assigned by Director.
THE LAW
The exception of child labor laws in agriculture relates to migrant workers. The youngest a child can work as a migrant worker is 10 to 11 year old. The reason that provision was made is because there was a time when migrant workers were paid pennies. It sometimes took an entire household working to bring in enough income to provide meals.
Today, most children of migrant workers (I am thinking California) attend school as a requirement, but, during harvest months (which is mostly summer when they are off from school) they are accommodated (by the school they attend) when they need to work with their family. They can receive tutorial services during hours when they are not working.
