When states in 2010 introduced the Common Core State Standards, which didn’t include cursive writing, most schools abandoned the flowy form of writing altogether. But cursive has begun making a ...

The Washington state Senate approved legislation Thursday to set stricter eligibility standards for sheriffs and other police leadership, weeks after a sheriff’s comments on the bill left some ...

Overturning D.C.’s Tax Law Would Infringe on Common State Tax Practices and Threaten the District’s Budget and Fiscal Autonomy Overruling the D.C. Council’s tax law flouts a common approach to the tax ...

OLYMPIA — Washington’s long-strained criminal justice system is under new pressure as significantly lower caseload limits for public defenders threaten to slow prosecutions and force the state to ...

Amazon is laying off 2,198 employees across Washington as part of the company’s latest corporate workforce reduction, according to a new filing released Monday by the state Employment Security ...

GRAND FORKS — After the North Dakota Department of Public Instruction released statewide financial literacy content standards for K-12 students, Grand Forks school leaders say the implementation is ...

(a) No State or any political subdivision thereof shall adopt or attempt to enforce any standard relating to the control of emissions from new motor vehicles or new motor vehicle engines subject to ...

At this town hall, there was no heckling nor heated debates on campaign issues. Instead, legislators from opposite sides of the aisle came together at Boise State’s Student Union to ponder one uniting ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ more than decade long effort to shore up the ring levee system around the City of Marysville will be sufficient to meet federal standards and avoid large increases in ...

The Texas Commission on Jail Standards has given Dallas County's jail a passing inspection — with no notes for corrective action. Despite a clean report, Sheriff Marian Brown said she plans to keep ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — The State Board of Education took its final look at new social studies standards, KCCI reports. The state panel that oversees Iowa’s education system approved new social studies ...