House and Senate proposals, with sponsors from both parties, would require schools to provide free lunches to all students regardless of household income.

Former President Jimmy Carter established the Department of Education in 1980, the same year he lost to former President Ronald Reagan.

Protesters marched around the North Carolina State Capitol building on Wednesday, part of a nationwide series of ...

The executive order to evaluate the environmental and economic impacts of the data center industry follows a Seattle Times ...

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The Office of the Washington Secretary of State has launched a new lobby exhibit in the Legislative Building. Launched on Jan. 29, it commemorates the contributions and history of the Washington ...

ASWUT announces the list of priorities they will be lobbying for at this year’s Huskies on the Hill event in Olympia. By: Michaela Ely. Feb. 3 of this year will be the start of ...

The action added to the dozens of staff at USAID being removed from their positions, as President Trump's team moves to ...

Women represent half of the U.S. population. But it’s still rare in some states for female lawmakers to have leading roles in ...

Billionaire and Trump ally Elon Musk said early Monday that his DOGE team is in the process of closing USAID, the world’s ...

It wasn’t quite the rally that was intended, but about three dozen people from the Pierce County Republican Party and other ...

Washingtonians far and wide — and from varying backgrounds — flocked to the Capitol Campus in Olympia to make their voices heard on Thursday. Topics ranged from public education to democracy, from ...