Voters are far more receptive when a referendum is positioned as the next logical step in a thoughtful, multi-year plan—not a reaction to last year's budget gap.

North Carolina's Supreme Court threw out the long-running Leandro school funding case, leaving education spending decisions with lawmakers. The ruling ends a lawsuit over whether the state was providing adequate funding for public education.

School safety can no longer be a hypothetical discussion. As of Feb. 17, 2026, there were at least six school shootings in the U.S. This includes four on college campuses and two on K12 groups, leaving five people dead and others injured, according to CNN's analysis of data from the Gun Violence Archive and Everytown […]