NJ Transit and a rail union trade harsh words over salaries but still promise to talk in Washington, D.C. to avoid a May 16 strike.

State Sen. Harvey Peeler, R-Cherokee, right, presides over a meeting of the Joint Bond Review Committee. Tracy Glantz tglantz@thestate.com COLUMBIA, S.C. Minimum teacher salaries and how much to ...

The Trump administration's proposed 2026 budget could eliminate Head Start funding, impacting 800,000 children nationwide. In Mississippi, Head Start serves 25,000 children and 238 pregnant mothers.

NEW HAVEN –– Facing a $23 million budget shortfall for the 2025–26 school year, the New Haven school district could lay off as many as 129 staffing positions, with an additional 42 current ...

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Indiana lawmakers and Gov. Mike Braun have reached a deal on the two-year state budget that's slimmer than what they began with ― but boosted by a $2 increase in the cigarette tax. Legislative ...

This story has been updated. The legislature’s Appropriations Committee adopted a $55.7 billion two-year budget Tuesday evening that invests in K-12 schools, higher education, child care and ...

Speaking to reporters during the second week of April, Gov. Kathy Hochul suggested that New Yorkers don’t care if the budget is late. At the time, it was a little over a week past the April 1 deadline ...

If Team Trump has its way, Head Start won’t just have to worry about cuts to its funding, it will have to worry about the elimination of its funding. By Steve Benen The Associated Press reported ...

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A budget proposal for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) paints a potentially harrowing picture with less than two months before the start of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane ...