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Community schools may be one of the most successful models of delivering vital supports to families and students in high poverty areas. Can Wheatley Community School overcome early challenges and neighborhood upheaval to close the opportunity gap for East Side students?

The city’s parade ordinance fee can be out of reach for many local organizations, but a new proposal may change that.

While Rodriguez v. San Antonio ISD worked its way through the courts in 1968, transcripts of Civil Rights hearings revealed a deeper logic at work in San Antonio and the country that sought to disenfranchise Mexican-Americans in almost every facet of life.

A Witte Museum exhibit devoted to health does not just teach visitors — it learns about them, too.

Let’s get clear on what churches and other faith gatherings can do to address inequality

Though poverty rates have remained consistent, Texas has significantly reduced the traditional welfare it provides to poor Texans through cash assistance over the last two decades.

Reforms of the mid- and late-20th century offered opportunities for some school districts to shore up their property tax base and create more secure funding. Edgewood, however, would not be one of these.

Kids don't leave the effects of poverty at home. More frequently, schools are seeing an academic benefit to providing food, counseling, parenting classes and other services targeting the wide-ranging needs of low income families.

Excessive soda consumption could be the next public health issue on the City Council’s agenda.

The struggles that continue to plague Edgewood ISD are rooted in prejudice that led to inequity and segregation in San Antonio's schools.

How the project’s 501 public housing units would be redistributed under a SAHA proposal and what that would mean for current residents.

How will San Antonio’s unique population growth affect its affordable housing dilemma?