Despite opposition to tolling and fears that cordon pricing may push traffic onto neighborhood streets, New York City’s pricing program shows that charging for road space can reduce traffic congestion ...

About 49 million American kids are attending public schools this year. Despite lower birthrates and many more families choosing private schools and homeschooling since the COVID-19 pandemic upended ...

Assembly Bill 5483 rightly starts from the premise that New Jerseyans should not have their movements recorded and searched ...

K-12 open enrollment allows students to transfer to public schools other than their residentially assigned one, provided space is available. School parents widely support this policy. A December 2025 ...

Across the country, state and local governments are passing increasingly restrictive short-term rental policies. These efforts are based on concerns about rising housing costs and neighborhood ...

Texas is proud to be among the states with the lowest taxes. According to the Tax Foundation, the state ranks seventh in overall tax competitiveness, largely because it has no personal income tax and ...

A new Reason Foundation analysis of every state in eight key, standardized financial metrics to assess long-term solvency and short-term liquidity finds New Jersey is the most fiscally distressed ...

A new Reason Foundation report finds Fort Bend Independent School District in Texas is the most stressed large district in America, earning seven red flags in an analysis of eight key financial ...

Federal aid accounts for about a quarter of state and local government revenues, helping fund everything from disaster recovery and food assistance to healthcare and transportation. But these grants ...

National data published by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) showed that K-12 enrollments in 40 states dropped by an average of 3.8% or almost 1.5 million students between 2019 and ...

A transit rider waiting for a bus rarely thinks about governance. Yet decisions about who plans transit service, controls funding, and sets priorities can shape nearly every aspect of the rider ...

Traffic congestion in major metropolitan areas limits economic activity, reduces safety, and robs commuters of personal time. Dynamic tolling, in which toll rates rise or fall based on traffic ...