When the COVID-19 pandemic hit last year, Wichita, Kansas, nurse Heather McFann was at a loss as to what to do for...
New York City must finish installing Wi-Fi in shelters for homeless families and domestic violence victims by Aug. 31, according to a...
With a massive infusion of federal aid coming their way, schools across the U.S. are weighing how to use the windfall to...
Large numbers of students are not returning to the classroom even as more schools reopen for full-time, in-person learning, according to a...
Researchers estimate and project the number of excess parental deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic and discuss the policy and practice reforms that...
A new report uses results from a national survey of students to discuss the experiences they have with police in their schools.
Natalie Linn has lived with chronic pain since she was in first grade. Her flares all but disappeared for a decade then...
In the coming months, after-school and summer learning programs will be partnering with schools to address learning loss in the pandemic. Tutoring will...
The Trevor Project uses data from its 2020 National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health to examine and discuss the experiences of...
The latest COVID-19 relief package, the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, includes a huge chunk of money to benefit young people. Of...
Hannah Weitzman is almost 10 and the only kid with hearing loss in her neighborhood in Chappaqua, New York. When her family...
In the decades after the civil rights era, Black communities in Jacksonville remained disproportionately impoverished, blighted and policed. Some activists would say...
Teri Sopp’s former self stares down from a wall in Florida’s Fourth Judicial Circuit Public Defender’s Office. The painting, a gift more...
Sports programs serving low-income communities have seen a big drop in youth participation because of the pandemic, according to a survey of...
The Delores Barr Weaver Policy Center releases a new report discussing the stark inequities facing black girls in the Florida juvenile justice...
Citywide after-school systems have staying power, according to a recent comparison of U.S. city systems in 2013 and 2020. “More than three-quarters of...
Elizabeth Lindsey is the new chief executive officer (CEO) of Urban Alliance, succeeding seven-year CEO, Eshauna Smith, on April 12, 2021.
Alabama is entering the 2021 legislative session, one year into the COVID-19 pandemic. For advocacy groups serving working-class families, Medicaid expansion is...
For a decade, expansion had been unpopular with conservative voters too, in part because of its ties to the Democratic former president...
The “essential workers” hailed as pandemic heroes often lack the basic protections of a living wage, health insurance, paid sick leave and...