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New data indicates colleges recorded a record drop in enrollment last year. We take a look at factors driving the decline.
More stringent accounting practices show state employee pensions combine for an underfunded ratio of 39 percent, according to a new report.
The hourly wage that Walmart would be forced to pay its employees in Washington, D.C., if Mayor Vincent Gray signs a so-called "living wage" bill that's sitting on his desk. The district's minimum wage is only $8.25.
Derek Franklin, president of an association that campaigned against Washington state's marijuana legalization law. The federal government announced last week that it wouldn't interfere with the enforcement of such laws in Washington state or Colorado.
The rapid proliferation of smartphones and tablets has led an increasing number of schools to allow students to bring their own devices into the classroom, leaving administrators with the big job of re-evaluating security and privacy policies and updating networks.
A cyberattack on the Kentucky Department of Education's Infinite Campus information network has kept thousands of parents from accessing data online about their schoolchildren.
An effort to ease a shortage of primary-care doctors in some California communities by letting nurse practitioners operate more independently has flat-lined in the Legislature after a fierce lobbying battle.
A bill by Sen. Ed Hernandez (D-West Covina) would have allowed nurse practitioners, who have more training than registered nurses, to practice without the direct supervision of a physician.
The proposal failed in a committee Friday, under fire from the California Medical Assn., the powerful lobbying arm for the state's physicians. The organization teamed with some specialists and labor unions to mobilize lobbyists, engage doctors across the state and even dedicate Twitter accounts as it waged its campaign against the bill.
The group supported a separate measure to permit nurse practitioners and some other non-physicians to perform first-trimester abortions, which lawmakers passed and sent to Gov. Jerry Brown last week.
Jockeying over the scope of medical professionals' practice has intensified this year as California prepares for full implementation of the new national healthcare law, which will bring an influx of newly insured patients.
Two Lexington County women who were legally married in Washington, D.C., have filed a federal lawsuit in Columbia challenging South Carolina’s Defense of Marriage Law and a 2006 amendment to the state Constitution that expressly banned same-sex marriages.
Efforts to identify and prevent Oklahomans high on illegal drugs from receiving certain taxpayer-financed welfare benefits cost the state more than $82,700 in the first seven months after a new law took effect.
The Bay Bridge - now with a soaring, signature tower anchoring the new east span - is finally open.
Gov. Steve Beshear’s all-out support for President Barack Obama’s health care reform law puts him starkly at odds with Kentucky’s senators — McConnell and Rand Paul — who argue that neither the country nor the state can afford a new entitlement program that they say has already raised premiums and kicked people off their existing plans.
As the recall elections — the first of their kind in Colorado’s history — draw closer, the race has swelled from a local scuffle into a proxy battle in the nation’s wrenching fight over gun control.
When the Justice Department announced Thursday that it would not interfere with the enforcement of voter-approved laws that allow recreational pot use in Washington state and Colorado, leaders on both sides of the issue had the same thought: The policy will probably encourage other states to consider similar laws.
By cutting back on a hodgepodge of topics and delving deeper into central concepts, the hope is that the children will understand it better.
Nurturing the next generation of leaders is one of the best things you can do for your organization.
Detroit's bankruptcy rattled the muni bond market when El Paso needed it most.
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper on the mixed reviews to Colorado's new logo -- a green triangle with a snow-capped peak and the state abbreviation CO -- and tagline, "It's our nature."
Number of questions removed from most civil service job applications in California three years ago that allowed an embezzler to return to state government work after she went to prison for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from another agency.
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in Billings, Mont., to protest a local judge's light sentence for a rapist whose teenage victim killed herself. The judge sentenced the rapist, a former high school teacher to a month in prison for raping a 14-year-old student. The crowd gathered to call for the judge's resignation as well as a review of the sentencing.
Frustration with New York City’s unaffordability and its aggressive police tactics is elevating Bill de Blasio, once dismissed as a left-leaning long shot, into the lead of the Democratic mayoral primary field, according to a poll by The New York Times and Siena College.
Unless a naturally occurring fire threatens lives or structures, Yosemite and other national parks are likely to let nature run its course.
Can you be held responsible for an accident that happens miles away because you texted the driver? A New Jersey appeals court panel says yes -- and its recent ruling is notable not just for trying to crack down on texting and driving, but for interpreting the way that technology has reshaped life.
Alexandria Superintendent Morton Sherman is leaving the city’s top schools job immediately. His departure came suddenly, as the school system is preparing to open its doors to 13,500 students. The move comes after months of increased tension and personality conflicts between the superintendent and a new, more hands-on school board.
The embattled mayor of San Diego officially steps down today. Allegations of sexual harassment against Bob Filner have rocked the eighth-largest American city, which now has to pick up the pieces and elect a new mayor.
In what all sides hailed as a landmark agreement, the state of Washington has agreed to fundamentally change the way it provides mental-health care to the most troubled children and youth who qualify for Medicaid.
All same-sex couples who are legally married will be recognized as such for federal tax purposes, even if the state where they live does not recognize their union.
The Obama administration said that it would not challenge laws legalizing marijuana in Colorado and Washington state as long as those states maintain strict rules involving the sale and distribution of the drug.
Merit-based hiring systems in government are more than a century old, and some of them make managing the public workforce absurdly difficult and complicated. They need to be updated for the modern era.
Long-time executive director Gary Thomas reflects on the milestone and the future of mass transit in North Texas.
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