While measures of racial isolation have improved, Black students are still disproportionately enrolled in high-poverty schools, meaning that 75% or more of students are economically disadvantaged.

Alabama's child population is also growing more diverse, and more poor. Child poverty rates in Alabama have increased steadily since 2000.

While Alabama ranks 39th overall in child well-being, it ranks poorly in family and community support (44th) and struggles with high infant mortality rates, particularly among Black infants.

Since 2015, the number of Alabama children entering foster care rose 16.3 percent, according to a new report. Here are other important highlights.

A landmark environmental justice agreement is aimed at fixing longstanding sanitation issues in a rural, predominantly Black Alabama county. Residents say they've waited long enough.

Those in rural areas have limited health care options, sometimes having to drive long distances for emergency care.

Dr. Wes Stubblefield with the Alabama Department of Public Health says Alabama is seeing the worst contraction of the state population in the last 100 years.

Most children in three rural Alabama counties live without connections to centralized sewer systems, placing them at risk for certain infections, according to a study published in Pediatrics.

A landmark environmental justice agreement is aimed at fixing longstanding sanitation issues in a rural, predominantly Black Alabama county. Residents say they've waited long enough.

A landmark environmental justice agreement is aimed at fixing longstanding sanitation issues in a rural, predominantly Black Alabama county. Residents say they've waited long enough.