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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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It’s not smaller government or better government. It’s less accountable government.
Scott Feldt, the deputy treasurer of Wisconsin, who says he sees a “national trend” of attempts to move state treasurers’ duties into the hands of boards and executive agencies.
September 30, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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The last time the federal government shutdown.
September 30, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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California is First to Require Websites to Let Minors Delete Social Media Posts
Doing what Congress failed to do, California became the first state to require websites to let minors delete what they post on social media. But the new law has already ignited a heated debate.
September 30, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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10 Oil and Gas Spills Being Tracked in Colorado Flood Zones
Rushing floodwaters loaded with heavy debris damaged oil and gas pipes and tanks, causing the two large spills that state and federal regulators were tracking Thursday.
September 30, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Pennsylvania Lawmakers Don't Bother Showing Up to Vote
A review of records since 2011 shows several of the region's lawmakers are routinely absent on voting days. Some missed days or weeks at a time.
September 30, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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California Governor Signs Internet Security, Hemp, Mattress Recycling Bills
Californians who use the Internet will get new protection against identity theft and tracking of their personal data under a cluster of bills signed into law Friday by Gov. Jerry Brown.
September 30, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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For Nearly the Same Price, NYC Could Lock a Person Up for 1 Year or Send Them to an Ivy League College for 4
New York is indeed an expensive place, but experts say that alone doesn’t explain a recent report that found the city’s annual cost per inmate was $167,731 last year — nearly as much as it costs to pay for four years of tuition at an Ivy League university.
September 30, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Some Students Allowed to Opt Out of Class to Get More Sleep
Hundreds of Fairfax County high school seniors have dropped their first classes of the day so they can stay in bed a bit longer this school year, part of a decades-long effort pushing for later school start times.
September 30, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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California's Truancy 'Crisis' Costing the State Billions
One out of every four California elementary school students — nearly 1 million total — are truant each year, an "attendance crisis" that is jeopardizing their academic futures and depriving schools of needed dollars, the state attorney general said in a report to be released Monday.
September 30, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Groups Sue to Block Key Parts of Texas Abortion Law
More than a dozen women's health care providers in Texas sued the state Friday, attempting to block as unconstitutional key provisions of a strict new abortion law that drew massive protests and threw the Legislature into chaos before it was approved this summer.
September 30, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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