After an I-TEAM investigation and a recent supplemental grant from the state, the Richmond County Board of Education agreed to provide additional funds to address the growing needs among homeless students and the record number of teens missing from the classroom.
Children & Families

School-based juvenile justice complaints decreased when children were not in school during the pandemic, but what about now?

When schools shut down at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, juvenile delinquency complaints decreased. Here’s what it means — and what it doesn’t.

South Bethlehem faces a complex list of challenges like housing affordability, but residents remain optimistic that they can help their city leaders solve these problems if they get a seat at the table.

Experts say you should break it down, beginning with deciding whether a nursing home is the right fit, or whether this is the right time.
A USA TODAY investigation has traced a string of casualties back to one nursing home chain, Trilogy Health Services.

A seemingly simple question — how many nursing home residents have gotten sick and died — has often turned into a political minefield.

How policy decisions and limited investment in Virginia made Latinos the most likely to get infected, hospitalized and die.

Inspector General Max Huntsman said he “received complaints from pregnant people in custody and their loved ones” about food and bottled water availability in jail, as well as out-of-cell time for exercise, and other issues.

For journalists, parents with school-aged children are a good barometer of what issues to cover in the weeks and months ahead.