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Los Angeles Unified School District officials made a very controversial argument in a civil case filed last year by a student who had a five-month sexual relationship with her math teacher.
Capitalizing on these five trends will enable an education system to create transformation for the future.
Small Business Health Options Program, or SHOP, is scheduled to go live Nov. 15. But SHOP plans will be organized by state — posing an additional challenge to small employers with workers who live or work in different states.
The abrupt closure of Paseo this week amid news that the popular Seattle restaurant is being sued by former workers set sandwich-loving tongues wagging about wage theft, a problem local officials have been struggling to address for years.
Federal requests to hold undocumented immigrants in Texas jails longer so they can possibly be deported have dropped by the thousands, according to report released Wednesday.
A board of medical professionals appointed by Gov. Rick Perry said Wednesday that the state should provide health coverage to low-income Texans under the Affordable Care Act — a move the Republican-led Legislature has opposed.
The Florida Supreme Court ruled Thursday that secret documents used in the high-profile redistricting case should be unsealed.
A federal appeals court on Wednesday delayed plans to handle a challenge to the Obama administration's health care law because the Supreme Court is stepping into a separate case covering the same legal ground.
The federal and state health insurance exchanges open for business Saturday amid guarded optimism that the seemingly successful window-shopping period on HealthCare.gov earlier this week suggests things will go better than last year's torturous roll-out.
OpenGov Foundation gets $750,000 to pioneer open lawmaking tools to citizens.
Some 49 people drowned inside vehicles in Florida between 2008 and 2012.
Residents of Virginia's Nelson and Augusta counties, are refusing to allow Dominion Resources to come through their land and survey for the pipeline right of way, saying they'll do whatever they can to try to stop the $5 billion project.
The food service workers at the Capitol and Pentagon, joined by workers at the National Air and Space Museum and the National Zoo as well as Union Station, will strike for a day to protest wages and working conditions.
Percent of households in the Denver suburb of Centennial, Colo., with Internet access, which is the highest rate of all U.S. cities with at least 100,000 residents.
Amount the Alaska city of Fairbanks has spent to appeal a $37.50 campaign-violation fine levied against its mayor.
Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe, on his decision to pardon his son’s 2003 felony conviction for marijuana possession.
Percent of Americans with a favorable view of the Democratic party, which is the lowest in at least two decades, according to a new Gallup poll. The GOP's favorability rating is 42 percent.
Patricia O'Neill, the Montgomery County, Md., School Board vice president, on the backlash the board received after it decided to remove the names of all religious holidays from its school calendar.
At some point, the city is going to have to face reality. The alternative is becoming the next Detroit.
The report is full of harrowing details alleging that five New Orleans Police Department detectives in the special victims unit may have failed to investigate sex crimes over a three-year period.
In 2000, New York had 17,000 untested rape kits, a yearslong accumulation of potential evidence in some of the city’s most violent crimes. Over the next four years, in a push to clear the backlog, the city had the kits tested. The result was 49 indictments connected to unsolved cases in Manhattan alone.
Moves by some U.S. states to legalize marijuana are not in line with international drugs conventions, the U.N. anti-narcotics chief said on Wednesday, adding he would discuss the issue in Washington next week.
Outgoing Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe said Wednesday he plans to pardon his son's felony marijuana conviction, arguing he deserves the same second chance as hundreds of other nonviolent offenders.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Kansas can't block gay and lesbian couples from getting married.
For the first time, an annual Census survey measures local Internet adoption. See which cities have the highest rates.
The justices heard arguments Wednesday in a case that could cause localities across the country to lose millions in annual tax revenue.
Pension plans want to support environmental projects, but there is one thing holding them back.
This controversial issue shouldn't be about politics -- it's about people.
Frustrated for decades in its search for a new source of water, the Texas city thinks it has finally divined the answer. It will pay big money to let private companies do the work.
Last week, service was disrupted for 18 voting information websites serving citizens around the nation this midterm election. But the nation may have bigger problems when it comes to voting technology.
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