Many states declare students to have grade-level mastery of reading and math when they do not, the Education Department reported yesterday.By: Libby Quaid|Date: Oct 30, 2009

WASHINGTON - A new rule for college students: Don’t sneeze on your roommate. The government urged colleges yesterday to prepare for swine flu this fall, issuing new guidelines for keeping dorm-dwellers from making each other sick.By: Libby Quaid and Justin Pope|Date: Aug 21, 2009

The Obama administration is ready to hand out more stimulus dollars for schools, but this time, strings are attached.By: Libby Quaid|Date: Nov 9, 2009

Using stimulus dollars as bait, President Barack Obama is coaxing states to rewrite education laws and cut deals with unions as they compete for $5 billion in school reform grants, the most money a president has ever had for overhauling schools. And it may end up going to only a few states.By: Libby Quaid|Date: Nov 3, 2009

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Brooks Douglass was staring down the twin barrels of a shotgun the first time he saw Steven Keith Hatch.

Nearly 17 years later, Douglass, now a 32-year-old state legislator, wrote the law that will allow him and his sister to watch Hatch die by injection for the slayings of their parents that night in 1979.

By: Libby Quaid, Associated Press|Date: Aug 8, 1996

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...feds don’t like it. The USDOE’s Inspector General does not like it, as is evident in the report. But, as Libby Quaid of the AP wire reports, Secretary Arne Duncan has given the Governor’s cuts his blessing. “The Education Department...

...feds don’t like it. The USDOE’s Inspector General does not like it, as is evident in the report. But, as Libby Quaid of the AP wire reports, Secretary Arne Duncan has given the Governor’s cuts his blessing. “The Education Department...