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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.

News in Numbers
15,000
911 calls that failed to go through in 2017 due to an AT&T outage. Customers couldn't dial 911 again on Tuesday morning.
July 02, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
The fact that I’m willing to have this conversation in front of my daughter shows how much we’ve destigmatized this.
Jonathan Singer, one of just two state legislators who endorsed the Colorado ballot measure that legalized recreational marijuana. He was talking to a reporter in his car while his 3-year-old sat in the back seat.
July 01, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
30 million
Criminal records that Pennsylvania is automatically sealing for charges that didn't result in convictions and low-level misdemeanors committed by people who haven't incurred any other charges within a decade. The state's Clean Slate law is unprecedented in America.
July 01, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
Students are having educational opportunities disrupted for simply being themselves. For embracing their blackness.
Patricia Okonta, a legal fellow at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, referring to school dress codes that prohibit hairstyles typically associated with black people, such as afros, braids, twists, and locks. California is on its way to becoming the first state to ban discrimination against natural hair.
June 28, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
8 percentage points
Anticipated reduction in non-citizens' response rate to the 2020 Census if it includes a citizenship question. That translates to an overall drop of 2.2 percentage points for all households.
June 28, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Supreme Court Census Citizenship
Archive
Despite Census Citizenship Ruling, Officials Say 'Damage Has Been Done'
The justices rejected the Trump administration's plan, for now, to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census. Even if it's not ultimately added, there are concerns about immigrants, minorities and low-income people not being counted.
June 27, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
We conclude that partisan gerrymandering claims present political questions beyond the reach of the federal courts.
Chief Justice John Roberts, writing Thursday's U.S. Supreme Court decision that leaves it up to states and Congress to address partisan gerrymandering.
June 27, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
700,000
People who could lose their health care -- whether it's through Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program or the marketplace -- if the Trump administration goes through with its proposal to change how the federal poverty line is calculated.
June 27, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
.001%
LGBTQ people's representation in U.S. politics. Out of the nearly 520,000 elected offices, LGBTQ people hold 698 of them.
June 26, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
Republicans have been gaining [voters]. That does go against the narrative that Trump was going to lead the party over a cliff.
Aubrey Jewett, a political scientist at the University of Central Florida
June 26, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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