By Lisa Michelle King Too often, K-12 social studies classes in the U.S. teach a mostly glossed-over story of U.S. settlement ...

Hundreds of private schools across Pennsylvania will receive nearly $20 million in state grants for mental health programs and building safety improvements, the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and ...

Allderdice High School teacher Megan Sommers began her class by pulling up an image of a message in a bottle floating in the ocean. “Looking at this picture, what would you do if you found this bottle ...

WASHINGTON — Incoming White House budget director Russ Vought has spent much of his career learning the detailed, often convoluted mechanisms that make up the Office of Management and Budget. The ...

The Federal Reserve’s second consecutive key rate cut could mean more than just lower borrowing costs for the average consumer — state and local governments stand to benefit, too. Lower interest rates ...

A new federal rule will require water utilities across the country to pull millions of lead drinking water pipes out of the ground and replace them, at a cost of billions of dollars. States, cities ...

The 2024 election results created complicated new realities for reproductive rights in the U.S., with Americans even in a few red states overwhelmingly voting to protect the right to have an abortion ...