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Daniel Luzer

news editor

Daniel Luzer -- News Editor. Daniel previously worked as the Web editor at the Washington Monthly and as an editorial fellow at Mother Jones. His work has appeared at Mother Jones, Salon, Pacific Standard, the Washington Monthly and Columbia Journalism Review.

(It's pronounced Loot-zer.)

Amount in grants awarded to states by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration between 2006 and 2012 that remain unspent.
Amount it cost Arlington, Va., to buy a new Macbook Air for every freshman in three of the county's high schools. The district aims to provide every student with a laptop by 2017.
State District Judge John Dietz declares Texas' 'Robin Hood' school finance system is still unconstitutional.
The U.S. Department of Education on Thursday denied a request by the state's top education official to extend a flexibility waiver under the No Child Left Behind Act, a decision that will place restrictions on nearly $30 million in annual federal funding for local school districts beginning with the 2015-2016 school year.
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Number of researchers worldwide working on "rebalancing" urban bike-share stations. Computer scientists and mathematicians are testing new algorithms to ensure riders don't face too-full or empty stations.
Cate Richards of IBM’s Smarter Cities, on how cities track inventory and infrastructure. In many cities, if a car crashes into a disabled hydrant, the damaged device is reported to the department of public works instead of the fire department.
U.S. school superintendents who approve of physically restraining children as punishment.
Greg Rice, planning and development director of Dunedin, Fla., who declined to shut down a 12-year-old's lemonade stand after one of the neighbors emailed City Hall at least four times in two years complaining that the operation is an "illegal business" and "causes excessive traffic, noise, trash, illegal parking and other problems that reduce ... property values."
Valerie Paschall, writing about Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. The movie is being filmed in Detroit but set in Washington, D.C., at times.
Time of day middle and high schools should open, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics, which claims schools with later start times see improvements in student attendance and performance.