Superintendent Deasy discusses his vision for Los Angeles School District and how he plans to boost results while wrestling with a severe budget shortfall.

Pushing government decisions down to the lowest democratic level possible — while protecting basic civil rights — guarantees that more people will have a say in how they live their lives.

Educator Edwin J. Delattre has long been interested in character-building and the development of moral and intellectual integrity. His book Character and Cops: Ethics in Policing is considered a classic and is used in police academies all over the world.

The fifth edition of this enduring work—recently published by the...

2010 census reveals Texas' economy has diversified far beyond petroleum, with booming high-tech centers, major corporate headquarters and thriving small businesses. It has attracted hundreds of thousands of Americans and immigrants, high-skill as well as low-skill.

Air pollution is at a historic low and affects far fewer people, far less often, and with far less severity than activists care to admit.

How well can our election administration system handle another close election? Since Bush v. Gore in 2000, substantial changes have occurred in the areas of voter registration, voter identification, voting technology, provisional balloting, and recounts. Experts from the election law program at The Ohio State University recently completed a comprehensive...

Are whites on the verge of becoming a minority of the American population? That's what some analysts of the 2010 census results say.

Public sector unions are not the same thing as private sector unions, and should not be able to collectively bargain.