by Star News Staff | Aug 30, 2022
by Reagan Reese The largest school district in New Jersey is going ahead with plans to implement a mask mandate during the 2022-2023 school year, according to district policy. Newark Public Schools in Essex County, New Jersey, is requiring students and...
by Susan Berry, PhD | Aug 30, 2022
More than 600 applications for Tennessee’s new Education Savings Account (ESA) Program have been filed by Tennessee families, Governor Bill Lee (R) announced Thursday in a video message. “We’ve been working overtime to get the ESA program up and running for this...
by Eric Burk | Aug 29, 2022
California regulators moved forward with a plan to ban the sale of gasoline-powered cars by 2035, a policy that also impacts Virginia and other states that have chosen to link their emissions law to California’s. In the wake of the decision reported by The New...
by The Center Square | Aug 29, 2022
by Bethany Blankley Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is accelerating the state’s busing to New York City of foreign nationals who’ve entered the U.S. through the southern border. The majority coming in are believed to not have valid asylum claims, are bypassing federal...
by Star News Staff | Aug 29, 2022
by Karen Kidd The United States, including Georgia, isn’t ready to fully adopt electric vehicles (EVs), and hybrids continue to be a better alternative for the near term, a high-ranking Toyota executive told the Wall Street Journal. High EV prices and a...
by The Center Square | Aug 29, 2022
by Steve Bittenbender New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Friday called it “a mistake” the state switched to remote learning in schools at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic more than two years ago. Hochul, a Democrat running to serve a full term in November, made...
by Rachel Alexander | Aug 29, 2022
The Republican-dominated Arizona Legislature referred three propositions to the Arizona ballot this year to improve the initiative process. Proposition 128 would allow the legislature to fix citizen initiatives with legal problems instead of requiring them to go back...
by The Center Square | Aug 29, 2022
by Casey Harper Oversight Republicans have launched an investigation into how the U.S. Department of Education has handled billions of COVID-19 relief dollars, raising the alarm about the major learning loss experienced by students. Republicans on the House...
by Bradley Vasoli | Aug 29, 2022
U.S. Representative Tim Ryan (D-OH-13), a candidate for U.S. Senate in Ohio, said this weekend that he will make a public appearance alongside President Joe Biden despite the latter’s abysmal approval rating in the Buckeye State. A July survey from Morning Consult...
by Aaron Gulbransen | Aug 29, 2022
In 2018, as an Ohio legislative leader, OH-13 Democrat nominee Emilia Sykes inserted a pay raise for herself into legislation to benefit the families of fallen first responders. Between December 2017 and December 31, 2018, Emilia Sykes served as the Democratic Whip in...
by Bradley Vasoli | Aug 29, 2022
Two Pennsylvania state legislators on Friday proposed a law to facilitate compensation for those who the commonwealth imprisons based on wrongful convictions. State Representatives Frank Ryan (R-Palmyra) and Regina Young (D-Philadelphia) plan to introduce the...