Voice: Roxanne Patel Shepelavy

Twenty years in, good charter schools are self-policing and calling for the closing of bad ones. Is it enough to get the movement’s mojo back?

A program to keep low-income residents in their homes gets a $1 million startup grant

The Citizen’s 2015 Socially-Conscious Gift Guide

A social justice-minded print shop sells aspirational college gear that celebrates black intellectual life

An innovative Police Department program works to upend the schools-to-prison pipeline

The state budget impasse imperils a program that works when the best option is neither public nor charter school

The legendary designer brings design thinking to solving civic problems

The only way to really improve student’s ability to learn? Fix everything else in their lives as well

Greg Hill and Gabe Canuso used to build multi-million dollar condos. Now they build community

There's still time to take a stand to get more from the cable giant—go now, or wait 15 years for another chance