Among the issues that Frederick County’s state lawmakers are pursuing this year are a study of the school funding formula, a new option for counties to tax data centers and many transparency rules for ...

ALBANY — New York education leaders and advocates are pushing Gov. Kathy Hochul to overhaul the state’s decades-old school aid formula in her budget proposal this month — a formula that currently ...

Florida is launching its own food testing program to check for contaminants like heavy metals and pesticides. Initial tests on 24 infant formulas found 16 contained heavy metals exceeding EPA safe ...

BARTOW, Fla. — Florida officials raised new safety concerns about infant formula after state testing detected potentially harmful contaminants in most of the products analyzed. Governor Ron DeSantis ...

The state announced Friday that its testing has uncovered a variety of toxins at amounts it said were above federal standards in 16 infant formulas on the market. The findings, announced during an ...

Jan 7 (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates' drug regulator has recalled certain Nestle (NESN.S), opens new tab infant formula products after the company recalled specific batches over a potential ...

With the penny set to go the way of the Dodo bird, state lawmakers are looking to ensure there’s a uniform standard for rounding to the nearest nickel. Noem calls ICE incident "domestic terrorism" ...

(WJAR) — Rhode Island’s school funding formula could undergo a significant overhaul under a new plan being pitched to lawmakers. The proposal would shift more of the funding burden to the state, ...

Massachusetts municipal governments are facing a “perfect storm” that makes balancing budgets challenging, according to two reports recently published by the Massachusetts Municipal Association. Costs ...

The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) has selected Abbott Laboratories for its new WIC infant-formula contract, a cost-saving agreement that helps the program stretch food ...

Patrick Schumacher, a policy analyst for the Rockefeller Institute of Government, co-authored a policy brief that calls for the state to give more aid to school districts serving immigrant students ...