Issue: 112                                                                                                  July 24, 2017

 
Leading charter school researcher Ron Zimmer, director of the Martin School of Public Policy and Administration at the University of Kentucky, discussed the basics of the charter school model, including how charter schools work, who runs them, how they are funded and if they are more effective than traditional public schools.
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In February 2016, Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo signed into law a plan to spend $4.8 billion on state infrastructure over the next 10 years. RhodeWorks, as the plan is known, received significant attention for including a new funding mechanism--tolls on heavy commercial trucks--and a focus on bringing the state's aging bridges up to snuff. 
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The Trump administration's 2018 federal budget proposes funding cuts for domestic programs and eventual elimination of 18 independent agencies. One agency, the Appalachian Regional Commission, is a federal-state partnership with a long history of creating opportunities for economic development.
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At the successful completion of an apprenticeship program, apprentices not only have on-the-job and instructional learning, but also industry-issued, nationally recognized portable certificates of completion. In FY 2016 there were over 505,000 active apprentices and 206,000 individuals entered the apprenticeship system.
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The Supreme Court has granted a petition in Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission.The issue in this case is whether Colorado's public accommodations law, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, violates a cake artist's First Amendment free speech and free exercise rights.
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State legislators from around the country gathered in Washington, D.C., at the end of June to attend the CSG Medicaid Policy Academy just as the U.S. Senate was beginning to wrestle with the Better Care Reconciliation Act put forward by the Republican leadership to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. 
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Washington, D.C.
Oct. 4-6, 2017 
Lexington, Kentucky
   
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