LOS ANGELES--The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is considering a new system for deciding which jail inmates get released early by making predictions about who is most likely to commit new crimes.
The proposal calls for a significant ...
Kansas has long been at the center of school funding debates. Just last week the Kansas Supreme Court ruled that the state had created "unreasonable, wealth-based disparities" among school districts by cutting funding during the recession.
But ...
CLEARWATER, Fla. -- The two major political parties look at off-cycle congressional elections the way great powers eye wars in small lands -- as a chance to test weapons and tactics they'll soon deploy elsewhere.
That's why many of the ads ...
WASHINGTON -- America's colleges and universities are quietly shifting the burden of their big tuition increases onto low-income students, while many higher-income families are seeing their college costs rise more slowly, or even fall, an analysis...
SAN JUAN BAUTISTA, Calif. -- The woman in line at the bank said she had already sold all her cattle and was now selling her land.
It was one too many tales of drought hardship for Laynee Reyna, also known as She Who Makes Things Happen -- a name ...
WASHINGTON -- It's not just colleges and universities that are shifting their financial aid from lower-income to higher-income students.
Tuition tax credits and other tax breaks to offset the cost of higher education -- nearly invisible federal ...