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  • Indiana Gov. Pence Signs School Resource Officer Bill
  • The bill sets aside $10 million in state money to allow public schools to apply for matching grants to hire police officers for schools that don’t already have them.


  • Baltimore Schools Chief Resigns
  • Baltimore schools CEO Andrés Alonso tearfully announced his resignation, ending a six-year tenure marked by bold yet often divisive reforms and casting uncertainty on the future of the long-troubled school system.

  • California Supreme Court: Cities Can Ban Pot Dispensaries
  • The California Supreme Court gave local governments the power Monday to zone medical marijuana dispensaries out of existence, a decision that upholds bans in about 200 cities but does little to solve Los Angeles' struggle to regulate hundreds of storefront pot outlets.


  • Michigan Teachers Opt to Work for Rest of Year -- Even Without Pay
  • The Michigan Department of Education (MDE) recently decided to freeze the district’s April, May and June state aid payments after state officials discovered the district had received $580,000 in state aid for a program for incarcerated youths that the district no longer ran.

  • Freedom of '3 Strikes' Law Prisoners Varies by County in California
  • Majorities in every California county voted last fall to scale back the state's Three Strikes law so thousands of inmates serving life sentences for relatively minor third offenses would have the chance to be set free. Five months later, there is no such unanimity among counties when it comes to carrying out the voters' wishes.

  • Georgia Doled Out Economic Incentives Despite Red Flags
  • State officials who awarded hundreds of millions of dollars to lure jobs here sometimes missed critical red flags in vetting the grant recipients.


  • New Jersey Seizes Affordable Housing Funds from Municipalities
  • Amid objections from municipal officials and housing activists, the Christie administration has begun the process of seizing $150 million or more in subsidized housing money from municipalities around the state and is keeping a tight lid on its policy objectives.

  • Prisons Test Crisis Intervention for Dealing with Mentally Ill
  • Over the past 25 years, crisis intervention team training has spread among law enforcement agencies across the country. Now it is being tested in the nation’s prisons, which have become the largest repositories for people with mental health problems.

  • States Take Lead Regulating Compounding Pharmacies
  • After a lack of congressional action after last fall's deadly meningitis outbreak, 15 states have taken up bills to step up the regulation of facilities like the one linked to the outbreak.

  • Federal Funding for Cities' Anti-Terrorism Centers Dwindling
  • The so-called fusion centers -- they sift intelligence about terrorism, determine threat levels, and investigate suspicious activity and potential crises -- have become a fixture in post-9-11 America. There are 78 centers nationwide.


  • Seattle Plans to be Carbon Neutral by 2050
  • City leaders this month are unveiling an ambitious Climate Action Plan, with the goal of making Seattle carbon neutral (zero net emissions of greenhouse gases) by 2050

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