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dylan-scott

Dylan Scott

Staff Writer

Dylan Scott -- Staff Writer. Dylan graduated from the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University in 2010. While there, he won an Associated Press award for Best Investigative Reporting for a series of stories on the university’s structural deficit. He then worked at the Las Vegas Sun and Center for Education Reform before joining GOVERNING. He has reported on the Supreme Court’s consideration of the Affordable Care Act and various education reform movements in state and local government. When out of the office, Dylan spends his time watching classic films and reading fantasy fiction. Email dscott@governing.com | Twitter @DylanLScott  

Prince George’s County last month became the first in the nation to give the chief executive the authority to appoint a superintendent and school board members.
Medicaid spending in Arkansas, which has undertaken the most ambitious performance pay plan for the program in the country, grew at a historically low rate in fiscal year 2013, the state Medicaid agency reported last Friday.
President Barack Obama called for every state to raise the legal age students can drop out of high school to 18 last year. But states haven't been quick to make any changes.
Two states have passed laws this month that require doctors to have hospital privileges to perform abortions. Critics say the laws will have little impact on women's health and are purely politically motivated.
Because of a tight schedule, a number of state-based marketplaces will still be finalizing their payment functions after the Oct. 1 launch.
State and local governments aren’t likely to have a big reaction to the news that the White House would delay Obamacare’s employer mandate for one year.
The bill introduced Friday would extend legal status and full benefits to out-of-state gay marriages. but it would not fully legalize same-sex marriage.
The state is making an unprecedented effort to cut health costs by instituting performance pay into its health-care industry and paying doctors based on quality instead of quantity.
Facing higher prices and limited access to e-books from the major publishers, one man has inspired a national movement to promote smaller, digitally based presses and self-published authors.
The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced Thursday that they would offer up to $12 million in funding for states to develop ombudsmen programs for their efforts to better coordinate care between Medicare and Medicaid.