PHOENIX - Arizona Governor Doug Ducey is hearing directly from school students about the challenges they face each day. Dana Wolfe Naimark, president with Children's Action Alliance, says students from across the state recently sent letters to the governor that tell a story of overcrowding and under ...Read More

HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. - While many North Carolina kids have rejoiced in the multitude of snow days experienced in recent weeks, others are left looking for their next meal. More than 600,000 children in the Tar Heel state are at risk for hunger and slightly more than that receive free or reduced-pric ...Read More

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida's new system for standardized testing of public school students so far gets a failing grade. The computerized exams, known as the FSAs, had to be temporarily suspended in many of the state's largest school districts because of technical glitches with the testing s ...Read More

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – A bill at the Legislature to roll back much of a year-old storage tank safety law could hurt West Virginia's economy, according to many of the state's small businesses. Emily Bennington is the kind of person development experts say West Virginia should work to attract. ...Read More

HARRISBURG, Pa. - Part of Governor Tom Wolf's proposed budget is an investment toward saving Pennsylvanians $6 billion a year, according to a clean water group's analysis. Wolf's fiscal year spending blueprint budgets more for the environmental protection, natural resources and agriculture departme ...Read More

LANSING, Mich. - Funding for after-school programs that keep many Michigan kids engaged and safe could be in jeopardy, which has education advocates heading to Washington to plead their case. The federal dollars that fund these programs are part of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, bette ...Read More