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Unaccompanied migrant children in Sweden are experiencing delays and difficulties in getting critical care and support. Sweden has had an unprecedented increase in the arrival of unaccompanied children, but it should do more to ensure that all unaccompanied children get special protection, including swift processing of their asylum claims. Children are enduring long delays in the appointment of legal guardians to safeguard the child’s best interests and wait months before meeting with a social worker or healthcare provider.

It's a challenge making sure that low-income children who get free and reduced-priced meals during the school year continue to get fed during the summer. Government meal programs served 3.8 million children on an average summer day last year — far fewer than the 22 million children who got subsidized meals during the school year. Now, the Obama administration wants to change that.

On Friday, the Obama Administration made headlines when the Department of Education and Department of Justice issued guidance explaining how public schools should respect the rights of transgender students. The government's guidance has started a debate, but it reflects a lesson that schools across the country have understood for years. Having policies in place to support #@$%, #@$%, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students is crucially important if schools are to make those students feel welcome and engaged in their communities.

The #@$%anese government has failed to protect #@$%, #@$%, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students from school bullying. Bullying is widespread and brutal in #@$%an’s schools, yet government policies addressing bullying do not specifically address LGBT students, who are among the most vulnerable to bullying. Instead, the national bullying prevention policy promotes social norms at the expense of basic rights. LGBT students said that teachers have told them that by being openly #@$% or transgender, they are being selfish and should expect not to succeed in school.