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Only five states have seen eighth grade reading scores go up since the pandemic. A look at two Tennessee districts show how they’ve achieved improvement.
Despite a shift in the definition of the term “smart city” in recent years, the effort to make cities smarter continues, and it has evolved to include new technologies — and even tech-agnostic approaches.
The number of workers in Los Angeles County that went on strike this week. It's more than half the number of total county employees...
Los Angeles resident Media Moussavy. Moussavy has been taking videos of trees that have been chopped down in his neighborhood and posting them to Instagram. A man named Samuel Patrick Groft has been arrested for chopping down trees in three L.A. neighborhoods, which police said would cost at least $347,000 to replace. (NPR)
Data centers are the driver of near-term growth in electricity use. Electric vehicles will drive future growth.
The administration has a NIMBY problem, facing local opposition to the placement of immigrant detention centers.
What happened in a Milwaukee courthouse is an escalation of the Trump administration’s assault on the rule of law. And it won’t keep us safer.
Gov. Greg Abbott has brought school vouchers to Texas. It's an achievement that can be studied by politicians of all parties.
The increase in residential burglaries in the Altadena area, compared to last year...
Illinois state Sen. Craig Wilcox, a Republican. Wilcox complained that Chicago, which is running a budget shortfall topping $1 billion, should not be coming to the state for further financial aid but instead should be getting its own house in order. (The Center Square)
The House has twice passed bills that would end taxes for individuals who make money on stocks and other investments. It’s trying to reach final agreement on a cut with the state Senate.
Business owners complained it was impossible to comply with energy reduction targets. Denver has modified its rules and Colorado lawmakers may follow suit statewide
A new law allows for removing elementary school children from a classroom, and then assessing the causes of the problematic behavior. Schools may need funding for more counselors to do so, however.
In contrast to what’s going on in Washington, state and local leaders are leveraging the technology to make government genuinely work better.
Noncitizen voting is extremely rare, and a presidential executive order would create unfunded mandates and unintended consequences, two former Republican secretaries of state argue.
New legislation would shield officers from prosecution for acts taken in the line of duty. Critics say no one should be unaccountable.
Traditional pensions and 401(k)-style government plans have undergone major changes in portfolio structure since 2000, mostly for the better. But recent market gyrations remind us that there are always opportunities for improvement.
Jurors deadlocked in a bribery case involving Democratic state Sen. Emil Jones III, the third high-profile Illinois public corruption case to end inconclusively over the last several months.
The increase in tuition at Oregon’s public universities over the past decade. Campuses are expected to increase tuition 3 to 5 percent for the coming academic year...
An anonymous attorney who worked for the voting rights section at the Department of Justice. The department has removed all of the section’s career managers and ordered attorneys to dismiss all active cases. (The Guardian)
There are a number of steps that state and local leaders could take to narrow the funding gap by tens of billions, making the most of the money that is available to keep the faucets flowing.
Homeschooling first boomed nationwide in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the trend has had staying power. The number of homeschool students in Minnesota has jumped about 18% since the 2022-23 school year.
The increase in applications from American scientists seeking jobs in Canada from January to March, compared to the same period last year...
State Sen. Jason Pizzo. Prior to making that statement, Pizzo was the Democratic leader in the Florida Senate, but he has switched his affiliation to independent (known in Florida as no party affiliation). Pizzo said that the party can be resuscitated but said that other Democrats don’t believe he’s the right person for that job. (Politico)
City commissioners voted to welcome state auditors to look for fraud and wasteful spending on their books.
States that are adding more housing and approving more permits are seeing their birth rates go up.
The billion-dollar voucher plan will take effect at the start of the 2026-27 school year.
To address the housing crisis, we need to pick up the pace of development without sacrificing commitments to low-income residents and environmental protections.
Starbase, the Texas home of SpaceX, will likely vote to become a city next month. Then the work of creating a government from scratch will begin.
The amount the Democratic National Committee (DNC) pledges to send to state parties each month. The money is intended to...
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