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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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Maine Earns NCLB Waiver from Feds
The two-year waiver means that Maine is exempt from the strict and virtually unattainable guidelines of the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act, which decreed that 100 percent of students nationwide reach proficiency in math and reading by 2014.
August 13, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Obama Administration Presses Forward on Early Education Without Congress' Support
President Barack Obama has found a way to cater to his obsession with pre-K programs while the rest of his education agenda stalls: Skip Congress and spend the money anyway.
August 13, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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New California Law Opens Bathrooms, Sports Teams to Transgender Students Based on Gender Identity
Beginning next year, transgender students in California schools will be able to compete on sports teams and use facilities, including restrooms, based on their gender identity rather than their sex.
August 13, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Denver Blocks New Marijuana Businesses Until 2016
Only existing medical-marijuana dispensaries will be able to open recreational pot shops in Denver until 2016, under a plan that received initial approval by the Denver City Council on Monday.
August 13, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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NYPD Wrongly Targeted Minorities, Judge Rules
In a repudiation of a major element in the Bloomberg administration's crime-fighting legacy, a federal judge has found that the stop-and-frisk tactics of the New York Police Department violated the constitutional rights of minorities in New York and called for a federal monitor to oversee broad reforms.
August 13, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Court Oversight Nothing New for NYPD
Elsewhere across the country, a number of police departments have found themselves under federal court oversight, often in response to a broader range of alleged police misconduct than in the New York case.
August 13, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Clinton Defends Voting Rights Act, Condemns Some States
Hillary Clinton criticized the Supreme Court’s recent decision to strike down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act, urging Congress to reconsider the 1965 landmark law and calling on citizen activists to mobilize in their communities.
August 13, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Lawsuits Follow Signing of North Carolina Elections Bill
The new law brings sweeping changes to the state’s election process by reducing the early-voting period by a week, abolishing same-day voter registration and ending straight-party voting.
August 13, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
1,900
The number of jobs the Philadelphia School District added with stimulus dollars -- only to eliminate all the positions in 2012.
August 12, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
I want to find the Portland Press Herald building and blow it up.
Maine Gov. Paul LePage, referring to one of the state's newspapers. He has reportedly said before that his biggest fear is newspapers and that buying one is like paying someone to lie to you.
August 12, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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