By Lynn Campbell | IowaPolitics.com JOHNSTON — Gov. Terry Branstad on Friday called for scrapping Iowa’s decades-old system of allocating money to schools on a per-pupil basis and replacing it with a system that focuses on improved results.
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IL seeks to add 100K people to Medicaid program
February 02, 2012
By Andrew Thomason | Illinois Statehouse News SPRINGFIELD — Illinois could add 100,000 new enrollees to its Medicaid rolls in the near future.
PA Dems, union back $30M in grants for failing schools
February 01, 2012
By Eric Boehm | PA Independent
HARRISBURG — In discussions of how to best spend taxpayer dollars, it is an argument frequently repeated: It costs less to educate a child today than to imprison him or her tomorrow.
VA gay adoption: Religious freedom or discrimination?
January 31, 2012
By Hannah Hess | Virginia Statehouse News
RICHMOND — Delegate Joe Morrissey, D-Henrico County, called a Republican adoption policy proposal “highly discriminatory, mean and cruel.”
Privacy concerns stall release of WI recall signatures
January 30, 2012
By M.D. Kittle | Wisconsin Reporter
MADISON — What’s in a million names?
Wisconsin and the world were supposed to find out Monday.
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