Each year, as part of the president’s budget request, the White House Office of Management and Budget releases projected spending on grants to the 50 states and ...
Legislation from over a dozen states are rolling in to permit certain undocumented students who have attended and graduated from their primary and secondary schools ...
Antonio Dominguez entered high school “disengaged and directionless,” as he puts it, but emerged as a community leader, and credits caring adults to ...
By an overwhelming margin, American voters oppose cutting food stamp assistance (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP) as a way to reduce government ...
The Campaign for Youth Justice is circulating a sign-on letter calling on governors to implement new legislation protecting youth in adult prisons (PREA). Contact ...
Show your support for the Pregnant and Parenting Students Access to Education Act, legislation aimed at improving graduation rates among secondary school students ...
Sensitive, thoughtful media coverage can be a powerful tool for justice and understanding, a catalyst for policies that help prevent wrongs from being repeated. But ...
Higher education should be about creating opportunity — NOT getting crushed by lifelong debt. But too many hard-working students and their families have watched ...
The YEF Institute has published a new report highlighting promising city efforts to improve the lives of children, youth and families in communities with ...
About one in three American Indian students in Montana will drop out of high school, according to a recent study. It's a statistic that's higher than the ...
While the United States has seen graduation rates increase in recent years, national graduation data mask the fact that many of our students, especially low-income ...
The Birth Through Eight State Policy Framework is a tool, or roadmap, that anyone can use to guide policy in ways that will improve the health, learning, and economic ...
If more children from low-income families graduated from college, income inequality would fall and economic opportunity would increase. A major barrier to a college ...
The Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative has launched a new campaign to fix foster care in the U.S. by encouraging states to extend foster care to age 21, offer ...
In January, the federal government announced plans for an early care and education initiative that would increase access to high-quality pre-K for 4-year-olds by ...
