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Fourteen states in 2012 enacted policies either mandating or strongly recommending that schools hold back students who could not read properly by third grade.
The unusual arrangement, tried in two other states, stems from a legal dispute over a Kansas law requiring voters to prove citizenship when registering.
A law that would have closed three of five abortion clinics in Alabama is unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled Monday, concluding in an extensive 172-page opinion that a "climate of extreme hostility" toward abortion already makes it difficult for doctors to perform and for women to access the procedure in the state.
Supporters of two Colorado ballot measures that would have curbed fracking in the state announced late Monday they were standing down, averting an expensive election-year fight that was creating uncertainty in both the governor's and Senate races.
We need to make the case for the glitzless but still innovative initiatives.
With a lot of uncertainty, schools try to prepare for new arrivals.
A new study of Illinois' efforts to boost math and science graduation requirements casts doubt on the effectiveness of the policy.
Recent court rulings add urgency to state exchange decisions.
Richard A. Epstein, a law professor at New York University, and Mario Loyola, a senior fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, who argue programs like Medicaid, Common Core, the Clean Air Act and the federal highway system are turning "states into mere field offices of the federal government."
Side-by-side, Kansas and Colorado governors offer a test of strategies.
The rules of the Affordable Care Act are at the center of a debate over a promising California health insurance initiative.
Island marijuana farmers are facing a legal question when trying to ship to the mainland.
In Colorado, lines are drawn for an election battle over hydraulic fracturing.
Ballot measures in Missouri and Washington state ask voters to weigh in on government's role in regulating firearms.
The percent of U.S. newborns who are breastfed, ranging from 56.9 percent in Louisiana to 92.8 percent in California.
Features Writer Sadie Dingfelder, on "adult recess," an event last week in which dozens of adults gathered at a suburban public library to play nerf tag and sardines.
See a map of where all fatal pedestrian accidents occurred.
See a map of where all fatal pedestrian accidents occurred.
Gov. Rick Perry has flexed his executive power to tap $38 million in emergency funds to pay for the early stages of a National Guard deployment to the border, his office said Friday.
The Obama administration Friday asked a federal appeals court to grant another hearing in a case challenging Obamacare subsidies, and hours later, the court gave the subsidies opponents 15 days to respond to that request.
From a public policy perspective, however, no state does a better job attracting visitors than Indiana.
The backlash against the Common Core has prompted lawmakers in at least 12 states to get more involved in setting their own K-12 academic standards, injecting politics into a process usually conducted in obscurity by bureaucrats.
No states require testing for such toxins, which are caused by algal blooms. And there are no federal or state standards for acceptable levels of the toxins, even though they can be lethal.
Last week marked the seventh anniversary of the fatal Minneapolis bridge collapse. Check out 20 years of bridge data for each state...
Right now, the state's lottery proceeds exclusively go toward education. But voters could change that Tuesday.
Facing stiff competition in Charlotte, Time Warner says it'll do a better job in the future.
It's time for self-driving automobiles, jet packs and hover cars, really.
The way U.S. cities and states dealt with such gangs 20 or more years ago may have contributed to the recent surge in Central American kids crossing the U.S.-Mexico border alone. The gangs these kids are fleeing got their start decades ago in the U.S.
Efforts to raise the legal smoking age to 21 have been limited to the local level so far, but New Jersey could be the first state to change that.
The idea of shifting the risk of failed initiatives from taxpayers to investors is catching on.
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