A D.C. housing development serves as a refuge for grandparents raising young children. Is it a model for the rest of the country?

Island School is one of 247 “community schools” in New York. These are regular public schools, with a twist. They have longer days and longer school years: Island stays open 12 hours a day, six days a week, including spring and winter breaks as well as the summer.

Lily, a character introduced seven years ago to address child hunger, returns. This time her family does not have a place to live.

Most states use an education funding formula to allocate state and local dollars to school districts. Most funding formulas attempt to account for student poverty, among other factors, in distributing funds.

An organization is using the influence that teenagers have on their contemporaries to help more students from low-income families gain college admission and student aid.

Some places lift children out of poverty. Others trap them there. Now cities are trying to do something about the difference.

Agency walks line of potential conflicts in seeking more private money