Many families in Quebec have a daily life that is partly online. Moms and dads check their children's school portals, use their mobile phones to settle invoices and manage bank accounts, while the kids access digital platforms for schoolwork and stay in touch with relatives. A family album is shared right away with extended family living in the West Island or other areas, and vital papers are increasingly in digital format rather than paper. The comfort of this method is plain to see, but it also means that family members now have more sensitive personal data to protect than ever before.

A 9-year-old child with special medical needs from Billings is being held at the Havre Border Patrol Station after U.S. Customs and Border Patrol made an unlawful arrest earlier this month, according to a petition filed in the U.S. District Court of Montana. Federal agents detained parent Adrián Espinoza De La Cruz and the child […]

More child deaths possibly linked to abuse and neglect in Louisiana have been investigated so far this year than in all of 2025, and the number of proven fatal incidents is on pace to surpass last year’s count according to the state’s child welfare agency. 

Michigan’s initiative to offer free pre-kindergarten for all is paying off, state educators said Wednesday, as the Department of Lifelong Education, Advancement and Potential, also known as MiLEAP, touted nearly 53,000 applications on file since June. Emily Laidlaw, MiLEAP’s deputy director, said during a virtual news conference that the figure had grown by 700 applications […]

Ohio Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Carey’s constituents are speaking out against Congress’s cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Medicaid, and education.  More than a dozen people recently protested outside Carey’s Columbus office as part of the Center for Popular Democracy’s national “Care Over Cruelty” August Recess Month of Action.  The event was also hosted […]

On June 11, ICE agents trailed a car into the parking lot of Commodore John Rodgers Elementary/Middle School in Baltimore. For the family riding in that car, an everyday school drop off quickly devolved into chaos.

(The Center Square) – Scott Lindsay, the former lawyer for a North Carolina county’s Department of Social Services, for now has avoided jail time in his conviction of advising the agency to use agreements resulting in more than two dozen children removed from their parents’ custody.

With over 30 years of teaching experience, Amy Upton prides herself on setting the bar for high-quality early education and childcare. As the executive director of East Side Learning Center in Concord, which operates both early childhood and school-age childcare, quality care is important to her and her business.  So when the state unveiled its […]