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A new survey finds that 42 states plan on spending more next fiscal year than they did this fiscal year, but most increases will be relatively small.
San Francisco becomes the first U.S. city to offer encrypted Wi-Fi.
Percent of Americans who are neither “consistently liberal” nor “consistently conservative," marking a 20-year low of people who fall in the middle of the ideological spectrum.
Percent of consistently liberal Americans who have an unfavorable view of Fox News. Seventy-one percent of their conservative counterparts say the same about MSNBC.
Inspectors general need to take on another role: encouraging government to build its capacity for service delivery.
Total amount spent by Randolph–Macon College Economics Professor David Brat by May 21 in his successful campaign to defeat House Majority Leader Eric Cantor. The Cantor campaign, in contrast, spent $168,000 on steakhouses alone.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry, addressing the Commonwealth Club of California June 11.
The Arizona Attorney General's Office will soon inspect detention centers in southern Arizona, where hundreds of migrant children are being housed.
More than 50 jurisdictions nationwide, including sheriffs in Philadelphia and several Oregon counties, recently stopped the practice. And Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco won’t detain immigrants with minor criminal records.
If the ruling stands, the challenge for California will be to craft a system that offers stability to teachers but also gives districts the ability to manage their workforce so that the best teachers reach the students who need them most.
State lawmakers preparing to hear from veterans about excessive wait times at VA clinics have new ammunition: In a new report, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs found that Texas medical facilities have some of the longest patient wait times in the nation.
All Metro Nashville students, regardless of income and grade, will have access to free school lunches and breakfasts when school begins in August, under a new federal program the district has decided to join.
The Detroit general pension fund board voted today to fully support the city's restructuring plan, including a requirement that the board establish an oversight committee to watch over investments for the next 20 years.
Cloud sales are expected to generate billions in revenue this year, but state and local governments are unsure whether they can (and how they would) tax them.
The Kentucky Retirement System -- the worst-funded in the nation -- is appealing a ruling that allowed a nonprofit to leave the state with its unfunded pension liabilities.
Approximate cost of pushing back the start time for Montgomery County, Md., schools, from 7:25 a.m. to 8:15 a.m. The superintendent proposed the change so students could get more sleep but recently gave up on the plan "after receiving the final cost estimates."
Gov. Deval Patrick airs a $20m plan to combat opioid use and coordinate with the five other New England governors.
Gov. Peter Shumlin signs minimum wage increase law that phases in increases over the next four years.
L.A. County supervisors vote to hire a "child protection czar."
'It was rough,' one juror says about the verdict on state Rep. Derrick Smith.
Citizen participation in local government is abysmally low, but a national survey shows what types of people are most and least likely people to speak up.
Former S.C. Attorney General Henry McMaster easily won his way into a runoff for the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor, but his opponent in two weeks was too close to call Tuesday night.
Two Republicans and two Democrats have advanced to runoffs in the race for South Carolina's superintendent of education.
Voters narrowly gave the thumbs-up to the state's lone primary ballot measure Tuesday, giving approval to move the deadlines for submitting petitions for ballot measures.
Little Rock lawyer Leslie Rutledge won the Republican nomination for attorney general in Tuesday’s runoff election, defeating primary opponent David Sterling.
The 2014 primary will go down as one of the most unsurprising in recent history.
On Tuesday, Silver State Democratic primary voters agreed, casting more votes for the state’s quirky “none of these candidates” option than any one of the eight actual humans on the ballot.
A new coalition of Common Core supporters, this time from the higher-education community, announced itself Tuesday. Its mission: to raise awareness about the importance of the standards and try to counter the spread of misinformation and the growing backlash against the standards.
The tenure and seniority system that has long protected California public school teachers, even ineffective ones, was struck down Tuesday in a court decision that could change hiring and firing policies nationwide.
During her keynote address Monday at the Western Governors' Association annual meeting, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced that the Obama administration is revamping the "crazy" way the federal government has budgeted for fighting wildfires.
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