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Caroline Cournoyer

Senior Web Editor

Caroline Cournoyer -- Senior Web Editor. Caroline covered federal policy and politics for CongressNow, the former legislative wire service for Roll Call, has written for Education Week's Teacher Magazine, and learned the ins and outs of state and local government while working as an assistant editor at WTOP Radio.

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States Against Health Law Prepare for it Anyway
A handful of states whose Republican governors oppose President Obama’s health care overhaul are quietly working to have an insurance exchange ready before the deadline next month to create one.
September 24, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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South Carolina Voter ID Law Case Set to Close
Closing arguments about South Carolina’s voter ID law will cap an extraordinary case that already has seen charges of racism directed at the law’s author as well as federal judges’ open frustration over state officials’ changing stances on how they would enact the law.
September 24, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Public Officials Convene at Cost of Government Summit
State and local government officials from around the country met in Washington, D.C., this week to discuss how we can afford the government we need.
September 21, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
This feels like Groundhog Day. Every month we hear the same bad news, followed by the same inevitable spin.
New Jersey state Senate President Stephen Sweeney, upon hearing the news that the state's unemployment rate rose to its highest in three decades in August (9.9 percent). The jobless rate has been climbing since January, when Gov. Chris Christie began boasting of a "Jersey Comeback."
September 21, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
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The number of states where income inequality significantly increased from 2010 to 2011, according to new census estimates. View data for each state with GOVERNING Data's interactive map.
September 21, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Michigan's Reform School District Lets Students Set Their Learning Pace
The Education Achievement Authority is the state's new school reform district, created to take over and improve the lowest performing 5 percent of schools.
September 21, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Illinois Lawmakers Generous with Scholarships Before Ban Began
Even as the troubled legislative scholarship program was on its last legs, state lawmakers continued to make questionable choices and show possible political favoritism in awarding the free college tuition.
September 21, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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New York Fracking Decision to Depend on Health Review
After four years of study by the state, the Cuomo administration now says its decision on whether to allow high-volume hydraulic fracturing in New York will have to wait until it conducts a review of the potential public health effects of the controversial natural gas drilling process.
September 21, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Chicago Has Limited Options to Finance Teachers Contract
Chicago public school teachers returned to their classrooms but thorny questions remained over how Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the cash-strapped school system will pay for the tentative contract that ended a strike of more than a week.
September 21, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Texas' Purge of Dead Voters Temporarily Barred by Judge
A Travis County judge temporarily barred Texas election officials from removing thousands of suspected dead people from voting rolls after four living voters complained that they had been improperly identified as "potentially deceased."
September 21, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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