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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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Detroit Schools Start Door-to-Door Campaign to Win Back Students
The competition for students has heated up in the past decade with Detroit parents enrolling in suburban districts that offer school choice programs while more charter schools offer more options.
August 14, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Booker, Lonegan Win New Jersey Senate Primaries
New Jersey voters are about to witness a two-month sprint for an open U.S. Senate seat that will feature a heavily favored national media darling fending off a conservative provocateur with sharp barbs and little to lose.
August 14, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Court Allows Oklahoma’s Obamacare Challenge to Proceed
Oklahoma won court approval to proceed with a federal lawsuit challenging tax aspects of President Barack Obama’s 2010 health-care legislation.
August 14, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Court: Feds Violating Law at Nevada Nuclear Waste Dump
The ruling was a victory of sorts for those who want the proposed dump to open but may have little practical impact in the long-running dispute over Yucca Mountain.
August 14, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Obama Pushes Ambitious Internet Access Plan for Schools
President Obama liked the idea laid out in a memo from his staff: an ambitious plan to expand high-speed Internet access in schools that would allow students to use digital notebooks and teachers to customize lessons like never before. Better yet, the president would not need Congress to approve it.
August 14, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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AFL-CIO to Target GOP Governors in 2014 Elections
The nation’s most prominent labor organization plans to throw its political weight most heavily into a half-dozen governors’ races in the 2014 cycle, focusing on states where the outcome of gubernatorial elections will be most “consequential” for union members and working-class voters, the AFL-CIO’s top strategist said Tuesday.
August 14, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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U.S., States Sue to Block Airline Merger
American Airlines and US Airways vowed Tuesday to fight the Justice Department lawsuit that seeks to block their planned merger because of concerns that travelers would pay hundreds of millions more for fares and fees.
August 14, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
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The number of U.S. jurisdictions that have merged their police and fire administrations out of the nation's more than 18,000 agencies. Jersey City, N.J., is the latest to consider such a move.
August 13, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
Skepticism of authority has been part of our national character since the Pilgrims, and complaining about government is a treasured American pastime.
Hillary Rodham Clinton, in an address to the American Bar Association’s annual meeting where she also urged Congress to reconsider the Voting Rights Act -- which the U.S. Supreme Court recently struck down a portion of.
August 13, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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New Illinois Law Seizes Gambling Winnings from Deadbeat Dads
Gov. Pat Quinn has signed into law a bill that allows gambling winnings to be seized to pay past-due child support. The bill is effective immediately.
August 13, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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