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When Gov. Mike Dunleavy talks about schools, he often points to data reports. As governor since 2018, however, class sizes ...

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Think back to middle school algebra, like 2 a + b. Those letters are parameters: Assign them values and you get a result. In ...

The new year is once again upon us but today marks fifty years (plus four and a half months) that something extraordinary ...