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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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Utah Governor Gary Herbert's 2015 State of the State Speech (Text and Video)
Read and watch the governor's annual address.
January 29, 2015
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Arkansas Board Votes to Take Over Little Rock Schools
A sharply divided state Board of Education voted 5-4 Wednesday to take immediate control of the Little Rock School District.
January 29, 2015
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Teacher Pensions: The Math Adds Up to a Crisis
Teacher pension plans across the country are staggering from a half-trillion dollars in debt. Put in perspective, that's more than $10,000 worth of debt for every student in the nation's primary and secondary schools.
January 29, 2015
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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California Can't Account for Impact of $13 Billion
Ten years after California voters passed Proposition 63’s tax on millionaires to fund programs for the mentally ill, the state cannot document whether billions of dollars in funding have improved residents’ lives, according to a new report by the Little Hoover Commission.
January 29, 2015
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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States Renew Fight to Stop Same-Sex Marriage
As the nation waits for the Supreme Court to decide whether same-sex marriages should be legal nationwide, another, more mundane front has opened in the wedding wars: the offices of the state and local officials who perform civil marriages and issue licenses.
January 29, 2015
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Alabama Lawmaker Threatens to 'Out' Anti-Gay Politicians' Marital Affairs
Alabama’s only openly gay state legislator, Rep. Patricia Todd (D), expanded on the threat she made over the weekend in a Facebook update in which she said she’d out the marital infidelities of straight anti-gay politicians who threatened to derail marriage equality in the state.
January 29, 2015
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Tennessee Seeking Hemp Farmers
The Tennessee Department of Agriculture is looking for a few farmers interested in growing industrial hemp.
January 28, 2015
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Hawaii Governor David Ige's 2015 State of the State Speech (Text and Video)
Read and watch the governor's annual address.
January 27, 2015
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Blizzard Shutters Schools, Roads and Businesses in Northeast
A blizzard dropped more than a foot (30 cm) of snow across the northeastern United States on Tuesday, falling short of the massive predicted snowfall that prompted officials across the region to close schools and order travel bans.
January 27, 2015
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Alaska Leaders Irate over Obama's Plan to Ban Drilling in Wildlife Refuge
President Barack Obama said Sunday that he planned to ask Congress to declare much of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as wilderness, including its 1.5-million-acre coastal plain, an area on Alaska's North Slope suspected to contain vast reserves of oil and gas.
January 26, 2015
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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