For far too many youths, especially those from Black and Latinx communities on the South and West sides, opportunities are of ...

A Better Chicago’s 2025 State of Our Youth report has identified mental health struggles, community violence, and chronic ...

Pedro Martinez, the superintendent of Chicago Public Schools, is on track to become Massachusetts's next education ...

Granny flats and basement dwellings could help with housing affordability, but Chicago’s outdated zoning rules make them ...

The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education in Massachusetts could soon have a new commissioner. State education ...

Cuts to SNAP would be detrimental to the emergency food system in Illinois, including food pantries and food banks.

raises household Income and reduces poverty by 1%-2% annually. The data reflect similar outcomes in the city of Chicago, with The Chicago Community Trust reporting that entrepreneurship ...

The new National Public Housing Museum in Chicago shows how narratives and prejudice doomed a great social investment.

As a Black teenager growing up in Boston, Wayne Lucas vividly remembers joining some 20,000 people to hear the Rev. Martin ...

The City Club of Chicago and the University of Chicago Crown Family School ... and families through the lens of policy causes and solutions to material hardship and poverty. She conducts two primary ...

Pope Francis, the 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church, will be mourned and buried at the Basilica of Saint Mary Major ...

Board Member Ericka Fisher, of Worcester, lauded that Martinez was “able to raise teacher salaries” while in Chicago. “His commitment to students in poverty and multilingual learners is ...