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Tina Trenkner

Tina Trenkner

Deputy Editor, GOVERNING.com

Tina Trenkner (@TinaTrenkner) is GOVERNING.com deputy web editor. She started at GOVERNING in 2009 and has covered stories such as the rise of the coder in local government and the risks of using social media. Previously, she worked for Education Week and Pre-K Now, a completed project from the Pew Center on the States. She is a graduate of Northwestern University and thinks of Evanston often.

 

When it comes to easing inept teachers out of the classroom, Toledo has been charting the way.
While the feds struggle with their own assessmetn of the chemical, several states enact bans.
Even if legislators pass laws requiring immigration checks, they run into resistance from the people who would enforce it.
Different circumstances and a more favorable political landscape bring new attention to school vouchers.
Over the past three years, states have cut mental health funding by more than $2 billion. Things may get worse this year.
Voting by mail is popular in the states that allow it. But some states are hesitant to make such a switch.
31%
The percentage of degree-seeking community college students in the Bay Area whom left local two-year institutions with a certificate or degree, according to a recent report.
Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman, who rejected U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's argument that prostitution is an impediment to economic development and called for outlawing it in the state.
The battle over public sector unions in Madison has thrust state legislators into the limelight. Meet some of the players in this slideshow.
Ohio state Sen. Shannon Jones, a Republican and author of a bill to curb government workers' collective bargaining rights, similar to a bill that has unleashed a backlash of protest in Wisconsin.