Twelve school districts in New York had poverty rates among school-aged kids of 30% or more in 2023, according to new ...

Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh approached drafting his final State of the City speech knowing the audience this year should include ...

Letter writers respond to syracuse.com investigation showing that city school drinking fountains, sinks repeatedly fail lead ...

Several Syracuse-area organizations are bracing for potential changes in federal policy and funding after the Trump ...

A new report examining the “State of New York’s Children” finds more than 18 percent of kids lived in poverty in 2023.

Onondaga County is the first in the state to win funds from a new pot of some state anti-poverty cash. The money comes at a time when federal census estimates show the city of Syracuse with a 45.6% ...

Skaneateles Middle School had 81% proficiency on the tests, which were given during the 2023-2024 school year. That was the ...

New York ranked 41st worst nationally in child poverty. The suffering was most acute in the upstate cities of Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo, where between 40% and 46% of children live in poverty.

Gov. Kathy Hochul reads her poll numbers and feels the economic discontent of voters who put Donald Trump back in the White House. That explains the focus ...