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A 2015 regulation requiring teachers to pass a three-credit college course on “family engagement” could undo some of the state's progress and force teachers out of classrooms next year.
A portion of corporate America has been rethinking its relationship with the National Rifle Assn., taking a closer look at investments, co-branding deals and other ties to the gun industry in the months following a Florida school shooting that left 17 people dead.
Governments can structure arrangements with private contractors that consider impacts on low-income individuals and people of color.
Despite an urban real estate boom, the home-values gap for traditionally African-American neighborhoods is actually getting worse.
Chief data officers are not only working to solve their own cities' problems. They're working together to share their approaches among their peers.
We need to value problem solving over partisanship. There are lessons to be learned from international negotiations.
Previous federal programs to incentivize investment in low-income areas haven't worked. Some are betting this will.
States where teachers are protesting have among the largest pay discrepancies when compared with similarly educated private-sector workers.
With just under three weeks left until the primary, the Republican candidates for governor slipped into their Wednesday night debate criticisms not only of one another but also of the Democratic governor they all hope to challenge in November.
A new study released as a prelude to Sen. Patty Murray's legislative effort to contain the opioid epidemic estimates the financial impacts of overdose deaths alone have cost Washington state $34 billion over the four years ending in 2016.
Gov. Cuomo said Wednesday the state will not let federal immigration agents onto state property without a judicial warrant or order.
More than half a dozen governors — most of them Democrats from the Northeast — announced plans Wednesday to launch an “unprecedented” multistate consortium that will study gun violence as a public health issue.
A New Jersey Supreme Court ruling on Wednesday found the use of taxpayer dollars to restore historic churches unconstitutional — and preservationists in North Jersey say the decision could strike a blow in communities where historic churches exist.
HUD Secretary Ben Carson on Wednesday unveiled a major overhaul of the rental-housing system, proposing to increase the share of rent that low-income households must pay before receiving assistance and allow public housing authorities to impose work requirements.
A wave of red-clad teachers will crash upon the Arizona state Capitol on Thursday for an unprecedented job action that will close schools for a majority of the state's public school students, part of an educator uprising that's also bubbled up in Colorado.
The Democratic Party has made its 40th gain in a state legislative race since the inauguration of President Trump, picking up a Long Island-based seat in the New York State Assembly.
People in the U.S. who can't vote because they were convicted of a felony. More than 1 million of them reside in Florida.
Montgomery County Councilmember Craig Rice, on a new requirement for all policy decisions to be made only after considering their impact on equity -- racial and otherwise.
Jail time teachers in Colorado could get for striking if a recently introduced bill becomes law. The legislation comes at a time when teachers are leaving classrooms across the country to protest low pay and inadequate education funding.
Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee, on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher."
If a bureaucracy can't function when the boss is gone, something is wrong.
Florida has emerged as a battleground in the fight over the 6 million people, in and out of jail, who can't vote because they were convicted of a felony.
In the midst of a harrowing psychotic episode in summer 2009, Annie broke into her ex-husband’s house and used a hammer and scissors to lay waste to plates, knickknacks, clothing, “and honestly, I don’t know what else.”
13 semi truck drivers became heroes Tuesday morning as they helped Michigan State Police coax a man off a busy highway overpass.
Maine towns will be able to ban sex offenders from any state or municipal park, athletic field or recreational facility serving children.
Maryland’s largest jurisdiction is poised to create a new policy mandating that all its actions be weighed against how they might affect equity — racial and otherwise — among its roughly 1 million residents.
Two Republican state lawmakers have introduced a bill seeking to prohibit Colorado teachers from striking and make it so they would face firing, fines or even jail time if they do so anyway.
Lawyers for Texas and a broad coalition of African-American and Latino rights groups clashed Tuesday before the U.S. Supreme Court in a protracted redistricting dispute alleging that the state's Republican lawmakers intentionally drew their latest political maps to marginalize minority voters.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has called for an emergency special election on June 30 to replace former Congressman Blake Farenthold, a Republican who resigned this month in the face of an ethics probe into past allegations of sexual harassment.
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that President Trump had offered no legal justification for canceling DACA protections for nearly 700,000 young undocumented immigrants, in a ruling that -- for the first time -- would require the administration to accept new applicants to the program.
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