By Claudia Boyd-Barrett California Republican James Gallagher, the GOP’s former Assembly leader, has often accused the state’s progressive lawmakers of heavy-handed government intrusion, but this...
By Alex Sakariassen Tucker Jette lives for gaming, but like so many other recent high school graduates, he’s had to come to terms with the...
By Fred Clasen-Kelly Devon Price, a 15-year-old boy with autism, has attended the largest school district in North Carolina for 10 years, but he cannot...
By Jim Robbins HELENA, Mont. — In 2023, a group of 16 young Montanans won a much-heralded climate change case that said the state had...
By Ronnie Cohen Critics of affirmative action have launched a long-shot appeal aimed at stopping California from requiring training on unconscious bias in every continuing...
By Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio Any evidence of lice was once a reason for immediate dismissal from school, not to return until the student’s...
By Arielle Zionts BOWMAN, N.D. — Retta Jacobi stepped onto a metal platform that lifted her to an entrance on the side of a custom-designed...
By Taylor Sisk Rebecca Kasen has seen and heard things in recent years in and around Michigan’s capital city that she never would have expected....
By Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez ELKO, Nev. — At the Two Spirit Conference in northern Nevada in June, Native Americans gathered in support of the LGBTQ+...
By Phil Galewitz and Stephanie Armour Doctors, hospitals, and health insurers for weeks issued dire warnings to Republican lawmakers that millions of people would lose health coverage...