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J. Brian Charles

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J. Brian Charles, is a journalist who writes about urban affairs, education, criminal justice, race and inequality. His work has appeared in The Trace, Vox, Governing, Playboy, Wired and the Baltimore Beat. 

Small schools and high poverty schools are putting their students at the biggest disadvantage, according to a new report.
Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections
The constitutional amendment, allowing religious monuments in government buildings, will almost surely wind up in court.
Florida voters opted to automatically restore voting rights to former felons, affecting some 1.4 million residents. In Louisiana, voters instituted a five-year waiting period for felons to seek political office.
Voters overwhelmingly rejected a ballot measure that would have made the position appointed.
It was supported by many city and county officials but opposed by Gavin Newsom, the newly elected Democratic governor.
Just ask New Haven, the home of Yale.
But the voter-approved measure still faces several major hurdles.
If Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti intervenes in the labor dispute, political observers say practically every potential outcome could hurt his future.
What do offshore drilling and vaping have to do with each other? Nothing, except that they appear together on one ballot question in Florida, which appears to be ground zero this year for legal battles over ballot language.