For the 2026 primary elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.

Currently, 18 percent of K-12 students in the United States receive additional supports through the identification of a disability. Socioeconomic status is viewed as central to understanding who gets ...

Students from families in the top income percentile are more than 5 times as likely to be identified for gifted programs as students from the bottom percentile.

Family income shapes school disability supports: high-income students receive more 504 accommodations and low-income students more special education services.

There is a Fence located on the central green space of our Carnegie Mellon University campus on which, for more than 100 years, CMU…

Many educational policies hinge on the valid measurement of student economic disadvantage at the school level. Measures based on free and reduced-price lunch enrollment are used widely. However, recen

Many educational policies hinge on the valid measurement of student economic disadvantage at the school level. Measures based on free and reduced-price lunch en...

The president's detailed budget, released Friday, proposes eliminating dozens of programs as part of a nearly $13 billion cut.

For generations of Black workers, federal government jobs have provided a path into the middle class. The Trump administration's workforce cuts are now throwing that sense of stability up in the air.

Children from families across the income distribution attend public schools, making schools and classrooms potential sites for interaction between ...