Nominations Open For The 2013 Arthur S. Marmaduke Award

Needy U.S. borrowers are defaulting on almost $1 billion in federal student loans earmarked for the poor, leaving schools such as Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania with little choice except to sue their graduates. The record ...

Hundreds of faculty, students and activists marched from the Mission District to City Hall on Thursday demanding support for troubled City College of San Francisco, even as college leaders prepared to meet Friday's accreditation deadline that will ...

Teach For America faces a showdown in California, as this state's Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC) considers new restrictions that could limit the placement of TFA's corps members in places with English learners. Since California has a ...

Federal officials are rejecting steps the European Union took to ban three pesticides that beekeepers associate with sharp declines in the honeybee population. A report on honeybee health, issued on Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency ...

TRAVIS COUNTY Minority contracting study moving ahead Travis County commissioners on Tuesday approved guidelines for a study into whether they are hiring enough minority and woman-owned contractors for construction and related projects. The county ...

My name is Robert J. Michaels. I am Professor of Economics at California State University, Fullerton. I am also Senior Fellow at the Institute for Energy Research and Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute. I am also an independent consultant in ...

California needs to change the way it fills state legislative vacancies. Current law requires a special election that often creates a chaotic, costly and time-consuming process of legislative musical chairs. The state soon will have had half a dozen ...

A task force commissioned by the NRA reported its findings Tuesday, including a proposal to train school personnel in firearms safety. A task force on school safety commissioned by the National Rifle Association raised the prospect Tuesday of arming ...

(Reuters) - Governor Chris Christie said on Monday the 12,000-student Camden school system is "undeniably broken" and made it the fourth in New Jersey to be brought under state control. A poor city with one of the nation's highest homicide rates, ...