ATLANTA - As the 2022-23 school year begins, Georgia kids are among the country's lowest vaccinated. Centers for Disease Control data shows Georgia ranks at the bottom of the U.S. states in terms of ...

(Editor’s note: An earlier version of this story reported that a higher percentage of Monroe County children tested positive for elevated lead levels in 2022 compared to 2021 based on information ...

Robust public investments can lift the weight of the child care affordability crisis off the safety net’s shoulders. Among impoverished families who have children under age 6 and who pay for child ...

In 2021, as the economy reeled from the pandemic, a one-year expansion of the child tax credit led to a historic 46 percent decline in the child poverty rate. But new census data shows a dramatic ...

Over the past few years, the percentage of parents choosing not to vaccinate their school-attending children has risen in Nueces County. Despite the millions of lives saved and the eradication of ...

While children in the United States are guaranteed a free education at their local public school through state constitutional law, many families weigh other educational options for their children.