Victor Skinner

1 week ago | readlion.com | Shanxi Omoniyi |Victor Skinner |John Ransom |Jillian Schneider

A public school district in Massachusetts is grappling with soaring transportation expenses for its 11,000 students, a recent news report concluded. “I am horrified at the burgeoning cost of transportation,” said Thomas Khoury, committee member for Fall River Public Schools, at an April 8 meeting. The Herald News, which is part of the Gannett USA TODAY network, traced the exponential hike in busing expenses from $8 million in 2021 to its present-day projections of more than $15.8 million.

1 week ago | themidwesterner.news | Victor Skinner

A political action committee behind former Congressman Mike Rogers’ U.S. Senate campaign is stepping on the gas with a new statewide ad campaign that launched Tuesday, a source exclusively tells The Midwesterner.

1 week ago | readlion.com | Jarrett Stepman |Alan Wooten |Victor Skinner |Kenneth Schrupp

(The Daily Signal) – Easter, the holiest day on the Christian calendar, should have its own federal holiday, according to a Republican senator. Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., wrote in an X thread Monday that he introduced legislation to create a federal holiday for Easter. It would fall on the Monday after Easter Sunday.

1 week ago | readlion.com | Jillian Schneider |Merrilee Gasser |Victor Skinner |Lisa Buie

North Dakota is on the cusp of becoming the 47th state to legalize charter schools, as a separate school choice bill is still on the table. SB 2241, sponsored by six Republicans, would create an avenue for public charter schools to exist in the Roughrider State. Versions of the bill were approved by wide margins in both chambers – 40-7 in the Senate and then 64-29 in the House. The Senate must now approve the House version. Republicans control both chambers. If approved by the Legislature, Gov.

1 week ago | readlion.com | Victor Skinner |Myles Slade-Bowers

Over the weekend, newly released records revealed another plot to assassinate President Donald Trump, this time by a teen who has been charged with the February murder of his own parents. In Pennsylvania, the governor’s mansion was set on fire early on Sunday morning as the governor and his family slept. No one was hurt and damage was limited.