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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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9 out of 10 Chicago Teachers Authorize Strike
Chicago teachers countered Mayor Rahm Emanuel's aggressive approach to school reform with the most powerful weapon in their arsenal, giving overwhelming authorization for a strike if contract talks continue to flounder.
June 12, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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The 6 Florida Voters Who Shouldn't Have
Gov. Rick Scott says he’s determined to preserve the integrity of the voting process by eliminating noncitizens from the rolls, but a Herald/Times review of voter information from Florida’s largest counties has identified only six noncitizens as having voted so far.
June 11, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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High-Speed Rail Faces Environmental Objections
The California bullet train is promoted as an important environmental investment for the future, but the heavy construction project would potentially harm air quality, aquatic life and endangered species.
June 11, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
We're not going to pull a blanket over our head and pee in our pajamas.
Marty Beil, executive director of the Wisconsin State Employees Union, in the wake of Gov. Scott Walker's win last week. He said his group would continue in much the way it did more than 50 years ago, when it had no bargaining rights.
June 11, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
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The number of motorcycle deaths in 2010 -- more than twice the number of such fatalities in 1997. Many states have repealed their motorcycle helmet laws. Nineteen states currently require motorcyclists to wear helmets -- down from 47 in the 1970s.
June 11, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Bloomberg Defends "Stop and Frisk" at Black Church
Use of the stop and frisk program - in which police stop and question people they suspect of unlawful activity and frisk those they suspect of carrying a weapon - has risen dramatically during the Bloomberg administration, to 685,724 in 2011 from 160,851 in 2003.
June 11, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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University of Virginia President Resigns
The University of Virginia’s first female president, Teresa Sullivan, will step down this summer after just two years on the job because of an apparently abrupt rift between her and the school’s governing board over the direction of one of the nation’s premier public universities.
June 11, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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E. Coli Outbreak Sickens 14 in 6 States
An outbreak of a less-common form of E. coli has sickened at least 14 people across six states and killed a 21-month old girl in New Orleans, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports. No source of the infection has been identified.
June 11, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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9/11 Health Program May Cover 50 Cancers
First responders and residents who were stricken with cancer after being exposed to the toxic ash that exploded over Manhattan when the World Trade Center collapsed would qualify for free treatment of the disease and potentially hefty compensation payments under a rule proposed by federal health officials.
June 11, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Obama to Congress: Stop Teacher Layoffs
President Barack Obama told voters to send Republicans to the principal’s office in his weekly radio address, calling on Congress to pass a measure to stop teacher layoffs that he first proposed last September.
June 11, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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