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A fight is brewing over Tennessee legislation designed to bring more transparency to the state’s new private-school voucher program.
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As legislators work their way through a bare bones budget, school superintendents are asking for full funding for transportation and construction.
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The legislation requires local government agencies that distribute benefits to check immigration status and report unqualified immigrants to the state’s new immigration office; it includes criminal penalties for public employees who fail to comply
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On the Senate floor Friday, several Kentucky lawmakers held an impromptu discussion of the federal immigration crackdown, with one GOP senator saying we need to “tone it down.”
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North Korea said Monday it completed a new housing district in Pyongyang for families of North Korean soldiers killed while fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine.