Dreby & Lopez: This back-to-school season, educators must be ready to act quickly to protect young people and help them access community resources.

If fewer people are counted, federal funding for schools, which is based on census data and child poverty rates, would shrink, experts say.

Acid rain and metals from power plants, vehicles and industries reached remote mountain lakes for years. Evidence from those lakes today shows the success of the Clean Air Act.

Since the earliest days of the nation, any person born on US soil is a US citizen. A new Supreme Court ruling limits judges’ ability to block Trump’s order.

Before the Nazis, German universities were among the best in the world. Step by step, the universities gave up their independence until they were instruments of the state.

The president wants to eliminate the agency backing libraries and museums. But the institutions do far more than lend books

18F was the US government’s in-house technology consultancy, lauded for saving taxpayer money and improving services. Here’s what it did − and what’s now lost.

The nonprofit’s Orange, Sullivan, and Ulster chapters are laying off nearly half its workforce and ending admissions at its clinic locations west of the Hudson

Here's how the cuts could affect New Yorkers.

Uncertainty about how much money colleges and universities stand to lose has led some schools to reduce the number of doctoral students, in some cases reneging on offers.

States don't necessarily need to follow all of the directives, experts say. But some of the orders carry a threat of loss of federal aid for not complying.

More than 20 states have sued the Trump administration, saying it has disregarded over 125 years of legal precedent which has guaranteed that a person born in the U.S. is automatically a citizen.

Where do pizza boxes go? What exactly is rigid plastic? How clean do empty jars need to be? Relax, experts say.

When foreign aid stops flowing, local leaders and diaspora communities can, under certain conditions, step in.