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The New Administration Declared Addressing Intimate Partner Violence Will Be a Priority. What Are the Next Steps for the Field? Practitioners and researchers agree it is not a question of whether we should help survivors, but how.Three Things for the New Administration to Know about How Young Children Are Weathering the Pandemic Quick and comprehensive intervention can help ensure young children are not playing catch-up for the rest of their lives.Why Segregation between School Districts Matters The potential for a school’s racial and ethnic diversity is directly limited by the racial and ethnic makeup of its local public school system.What Would Providing Every City with High-Quality, Zero-Emissions Public Transportation Look Like? The federal government has historically not invested much in funding transit operations. But the CARES Act allocated $25 billion to transit, potentially setting a new precedent.Kentucky Is Succeeding in Keeping Youth Out of the Juvenile Justice System For most, the best justice solution is to stay out of the system entirely.Working Parents Are Relying on Others to Help with Their Children’s Distance Learning. But Who’s Helping the Helpers? 15 million parents with school-age children engaged in remote learning report that no adult in their household had moved to telework because of the pandemic.