For Youth and Their KIN

Meet Bruhat Soma (12) of Tampa, Florida, winner of the 2024 Scripps National Spelling Bee

ALSO, WELCOME HEZLY RIVERA, THE YOUNGEST (age 16) MEMBER OF OUR 2024 Olympic TEAM. HEZLY hails from NewJersey. .

HOPE FOR California Juveniles

On Saturday, California shuttered its last three state-run youth lockups and passed day-to-day operations of juvenile halls to county probation departments— all in hope of breaking “the school-to-prison pipeline,” as Gov. Gavin Newsom put it in 2020.