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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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Police Chief the Latest Ferguson Official to Fall
Police Chief Thomas Jackson resigned Wednesday, saying he always wanted to do what's best for his community and realized that now meant leaving it.
March 12, 2015
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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2 Ferguson Officers Shot During Protest
Two St. Louis County police officers were shot outside the Ferguson Police Department during another night of protests in the troubled Missouri city, police confirmed early Thursday.
March 12, 2015
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
It's a little bit embarrassing how easy it is to go [through] K-12 public schooling and ... not know the first thing about history and citizenship.
Robert Pondiscio, a senior fellow at the Fordham Institute, a conservative education think tank, on the state of civics education in America. Arizona and North Dakota recently made passing the U.S. citizenship exam a requirement for high school graduation, and similar bills are pending in 19 states.
March 12, 2015
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Republicans Kill Montana Governor’s Medicaid Expansion Plan
Obamacare’s tenuous toehold in Montana appears to be growing no firmer. Despite a hearing crowded with supporters of the Democratic governor’s Medicaid expansion bill, Republican legislators have dealt the measure a likely death blow.
March 11, 2015
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Undrinkable: Many Along Texas Border Still Live Without Clean, Safe Water
Turn on the faucet. Fill a glass with water. Drink it. Acts so commonplace you perform them without thinking twice.
March 11, 2015
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Medical Marijuana Gets a Bipartisan Boost in Congress
Marijuana legalization got a boost on Capitol Hill on Tuesday as a trio of rising stars in the Senate launched an effort to rewrite federal drug laws.
March 11, 2015
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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West Virginia Drops Common Core Repeal
Legislators have approved removing from a bill a mandatory repeal of the state's Common Core standards -- following great opposition from state education officials, who said the legislation could disrupt West Virginia's entire K-12 system, cost more than $100 million and threaten federal funding.
March 11, 2015
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Ferguson City Manager Resigns
Ferguson city manager John Shaw, the city's most powerful official, resigned Tuesday night.
March 11, 2015
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Latest News
Utah Could Become Only State with Executions by Firing Squad
Utah will be able to use a firing squad to execute death row inmates when lethal-injection drugs are unavailable, as long as the governor signs a bill that cleared the state Senate on Tuesday.
March 11, 2015
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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States Turn to Technology to Calculate Prison Sentences
Human error and outdated technology have miscalculated thousands of prison sentences and cost some states millions of dollars.
March 10, 2015
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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