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Glenda Ritz win in Indiana just one of the union victories nationwide
By Melissa Maynard and Ben Wieder Stateline.org No state has ushered in more education changes over the past four years than Indiana. The Hoosier state instituted an A to F grading system for schools,linked teacher evaluations to student performance, scaled back teacher tenure and created one of the nation’s broadest private school voucher programs. Those changes attracted national [...]
Accountable care explained: An experiment in state health policy
By Christine Vestal Stateline.org The Affordable Care Act and state fiscal pressures have spawned an array of new Medicaid cost containment and quality improvement schemes. Among the most ambitious is a health care delivery system whose components are called accountable care organizations or ACOs. The phrase “accountable care organization” was coined in 2006 at Dartmouth University [...]
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Barack Obama vs Mitt Romney: Issues key to states
Stateline.org, a nonpartisan, nonprofit news service of the Pew Center on the States, created this graphic to explore issues in the presidential race that are important to state governments. Stateline is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news service of the Pew Center on the States that provides daily reporting and analysis on trends in state policy.
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States still resisting national sex offender law requirements
By Maggie Clark Stateline.org Six years ago, Congress passed the Adam Walsh Act, aimed at setting up a uniform national registry to track known sex offenders as they move around the country. The law offers states federal funds to complete their part of the job, and 16 have secured Justice Department approval for doing it successfully. [...]
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Democrats play defense in governors’ races across the nation
By Daniel C. Vock Stateline.org The race for New Hampshire governor has the hallmarks of the biggest gubernatorial races this fall: heavy involvement from outside groups, a national contest stealing the spotlight and messages that echo themes from this year’s presidential campaigns. Money is already pouring into gubernatorial races in New Hampshire, North Carolina, Montana, Washington [...]
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Sequestration: How a spending stalemate would affect the states
By Jake Grovum Stateline.org “A self-inflicted wound” to a struggling economy. “Ham-handed cuts” nobody thought would actually happen. “The big, dumb spending cuts that no one wants.” Those are just three descriptions given to the looming federal budget reductions that are scheduled to take effect Jan. 2, 2013, unless Congress stops them. If they are enacted, [...]
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Some states consider a marijuana revolt
By Maggie Clark Stateline.org From his porch overlooking Seattle’s Lake Union and Interstate 5, former U.S. attorney John McKay can see tractor trailers speeding down the highway. McKay has strong suspicions about the cargo some of them are carrying. In Indiana Indiana is not one of the 17 states that allow some medical use of marijuana. [...]
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Courts, states differ on police use of DNA
By Maggie Clark Stateline.org Alonzo Jay King, Jr. was arrested on Maryland’s Eastern Shore in 2009 for first-degree felony assault and, as is standard practice in 25 states and the federal government, a sample of King’s DNA was takenat the booking facility and sent to the state crime lab. After analyzing the sample and running it through [...]
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Are states’ unemployment insurance loans dragging down economies?
By Pamela M. Prah Stateline.org States are slowly paying off the billions of dollars they borrowed to keep their unemployment trust funds afloat during the recession, but those debts are challenging a system created more than 75 years ago and could be hampering some states’ economic recovery. As of June 27, 2012, the most recent balances of outstanding state [...]
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