RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s contentious restrictions on public mask-wearing became law on Thursday after GOP lawmakers successfully overrode a veto by the state’s Democratic governor. The Senate gave its final stamp of approval in a 30-13 override vote along party lines. The state House initiated the process Wednesday when it voted to override […]
May 27—The state Public Education Department last week unveiled an updated version of its online portal for statewide school statistics, called New Mexico Vistas. The revamped site’s data from the 2022-23 school year didn’t change, but many school designations were shuffled, altering the level of state support schools will be set to receive. Twelve public […]
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) on Monday directed the state’s education agency to bypass a revised anti-discrimination law from President Joe Biden’s administration set to go into effect on Aug. 1. Since 1972, Title IX has prohibited discrimination at federally funded schools “on the basis of sex,” but this month the Biden administration announced a […]
Those looking for consistency from Donald Trump on abortion policy are going to be disappointed. He was, after all, “very” and “strongly” in support of reproductive rights in the not-too-distant past. That, of course, was long before the Republican reinvented himself. But even after the former president’s metamorphosis, Trump struggled with relevant details. In fact, […]
(Bloomberg) — Wall Street got a bit of encouragement after an uneventful US inflation revision lifted stocks in early trading, with traders now shifting gears to next week’s data for clues on the Federal Reserve’s rate path. Most Read from Bloomberg S&P 500 contracts signaled the benchmark gauge will top 5,000 after briefly hitting that […]