A recent analysis of about 568,000 patients found that 0.016 percent of COVID-19 patients over 50 who received Paxlovid died…
A new study involving more than 30,000 patients who tested positive for COVID-19 takes another look at the cluster of symptoms associated with long COVID-19…
Federal emergency aid disbursed during the COVID-19 pandemic helped college students stay enrolled in classes…
Chronic absenteeism in public schools surged during the pandemic, which experts say helps explain a historic plunge in student test scores…
The CDC has recommended Pfizer-BioNTech's and Moderna's Omicron-targeting COVID-19 booster shots for children as young as age 5, hours after the FDA granted emergency use authorization to the updated vaccines…
White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Ashish Jha has issued a warning stating that the U.S. should brace itself for a spike in COVID-19 cases this winter as more people will begin to gather indoors…
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has renewed the determination that a public health emergency continues to exist…
The latest point-in-time count of California’s homeless population shows that it increased at roughly the same pace as previous years…
During the pandemic, California’s low-income families that are required to pay a fee to receive subsidized child care got a waiver from paying…
Cyberattacks on school districts happen frequently nationwide…
A new state service program launched last week will give hundreds of undocumented students as much as $10,000 per year to perform community service in areas including K-12 education, food insecurity and climate action…
President Biden says the student debt relief application is officially open, days after the administration began beta testing the website…
Health experts are recommending children and adolescents be screened for anxiety and depression as a step to address the U.S. youth mental health challenges…
Though Biden has vowed support to Puerto Rico after Hurricane Fiona, and paid a visit to the island Monday, 10/10, to demonstrate the administration’s commitment, residents want more than a temporary fix…
More than one million low-income Puerto Ricans are at risk of having their health insurance upended in December when a boost in Medicaid funds expires…
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of Title IX, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) released proposed changes on September 23, 2022 to the regulations that help elementary and secondary schools and colleges and universities implement this vital legislation…
President Biden on Thursday, 10/6, granted a pardon to all people convicted of simple marijuana possession under federal law, in what amounts to the most extensive White House action taken to date on U.S. drug policy…
The Biden administration is pushing the message that they can get infrastructure projects done fast…
A maternity care desert is defined by the organization as any county without a hospital or birth center offering obstetric care and without any obstetric providers…
Education Trust is out with a new report on how states can use American Rescue Plan funding to boost teacher diversity…
On Thursday, 10/13, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released a report revealing that prices rose by 8.2 percent when compared a year ago, and that prices were up by 0.4 percent when compared to last month…
President Biden said a recession in the U,S. is possible but that any downturn would be “very slight” and that the U.S. economy is resilient enough to ride out the turbulence…
Just a quarter of eligible households are taking advantage of a federal program to provide students with free or inexpensive internet access, according to a new report released Tuesday…
The Social Security Administration has announced that Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits for approximately 70 million Amercans will increase 8.7 percent in 2023…
On Friday, 10/14, President Biden signed an executive order that will task U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to use its Innovation Center to work toward lowering drug prices and finding new ways of paying for Medicare services…
A new paper suggests introductory STEM courses disproportionately push underrepresented minority students out of the natural and applied sciences…
A group of Senate and House Democrats want Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to extend the Public Service Loan Forgiveness waiver to 6/1/23…
High school students resumed taking the annual National Youth Tobacco Survey in school this year and 14 percent of them reported using e-cigarettes…
Leading organizations representing the nation’s colleges and universities on Wednesday, 10/12, urged their members to “closely examine” their policies on withholding student transcripts as federal regulators move to crack down on the practice…
Charter schools that received federal funding for start-up costs were less likely to close within five years than those without the financial boost, according to a new report from a government watchdog group…
In September, the National Coalition for Public School Options released the results of a national survey that revealed 71 percent of parents surveyed sent their children to their local district public school while 61 percent believe those schools are headed in the wrong direction, including urban residents, at 67 percent…
Last month, California Community Colleges missed the deadline to achieve academic goals of narrowing the graduation rate gap by 40 percent among its Black, Latino, and white students in five years…