College promise initiatives got started earlier in other states but have expanded across Texas in recent years.

As soon as Tracy Area Schools in Minnesota resumed charging for breakfast and lunch last year, students started dropping out of the program. Many of their families simply couldn’t shell out up to ...

More students are getting free- and reduced-price meals in school, according to a recently released report. It’s a rise driven, in large part, by states passing universal school meal laws. New York is ...

The free college tuition train keeps on rolling along. In the past few weeks, four more prominent colleges and universities — the University of Utah, Smith College, Bryn Mawr College and the Stevens ...

Over the past decade, many more schools started to offer free meals to all children, regardless of family income. More than 21 million American children now attend schools that offer free meals ...

Though East Hampton is a solidly middle-class town in Connecticut, dozens of families are applying for free school meals for the first time as they contend with high food costs and tight budgets. Like ...

Home visitor programs are run by local governments and nonprofit organizations and are funded largely through a federal ...

A growing number of states have implemented free lunches for all students in recent years, making the school year easier for families who are food insecure. But the summer is a different story. While ...

So, if free, public driver’s ed programs are becoming rarer and rarer, who are these new drivers supposed tap to log those hours behind the wheel? Frequently, it’s up to parents to fill in the gap ...

Australia can learn from other countries to introduce a universal free school lunch program that benefits children, families, ...