Oregonians who recently lost SNAP benefits, or who may lose them soon, may be able to get those benefits back under updated federal work rules. McMinnville restaurant to pay $200K after overtime and ...

A Florida grassroots anti-Common Core organization has released a voter guide for the upcoming primary elections, grading state lawmakers and political hopefuls on their commitment to abolishing the ...

Fortune examines the roles big business and big philanthropy played in developing the Common Core standards for public-school curricula and how they responded when the widely adopted guidelines ...

Tuesday was a big day for some anti-Common Core groups, who had thrown their weight behind congressional and statewide candidates in the August primary. Florida anti-Common Core groups released ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Fresh off his failed effort to persuade fellow Republicans in the Legislature that he wasn’t peddling “Obamacare,” Gov. Bill Haslam is pivoting to another tough fight over what ...

If you can’t persuade lawmakers with logic, use humor — and aluminum foil hats. That’s one Missouri state representative’s reasoning for tying an appropriation for “tin foil hats” into an amendment ...

Is the Common Core on its way in — or out? Proponents and opponents are so sharply divided that an assessment of the standards’ prospects depends on whom you ask. The national academic standards have ...