Mark Halperin covers a VOCES rally supporting sanctuary schools in Milwaukee, Wisconsin prior to a school board vote that would declare Milwaukee Public Schools a sanctuary district. After students get the chance to share their emotional stories, the resolution from the school board passes, shielding students and families from deportation while on school grounds. Watch Read more…

Last year’s earthshaking election brought new attention to rural America. This attention is overdue — rural America has long been largely ignored by reporters, researchers and policymakers — and much of it is useful, as this increasingly urban-centric country tries to understand and reconnect with those living far from cities. Hazen Board Member, Mara Casey Read more…

the Logan Square Neighborhood Association would make it more expensive to tear down and replace relatively affordable multi-family properties with more expensive single family homes. Click Here For Full Article

The push from the Youth on Board, the Boston Student Advisory Council and other groups comes as the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education is considering expanding how it judges school performance beyond standardized testing as it puts in place new federal rules, known as the Every Student Succeeds Act. Click Here for Full Read more…

The complaint was filed in November by the Labor/Community Strategy Center, the parent organization of the Bus Riders Union, and it alleges that in each year from 2012 to 2015, black riders—who make up about 19 percent of bus and rail riders—were handed more than 50 percent of all fare evasion citations. By Jenna Chandler Read more…