The Missouri legislature is likely one vote away from placing the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department under state control. The Senate voted 27-5 on Monday to pass a House bill placing control of ...

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Central Falls schools have been under state control since 1991, and the state took control of Providence schools in 2019.

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Hear more about the state takeover of the police department on The 314 Podcast. The bill to return control of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department to a board appointed by Missouri’s governor ...

As Missouri stands on the verge of controlling the police forces in Kansas City and St. Louis, new polling suggests that Missouri voters oppose the idea of state control in policing. The poll, ...

St. Louis Police are now required to get 25 percent of the city's general fund spending. But that's not all. How much will the City of St. Louis spend on policing now that the police are under state ...

It’s at least two more years before the state takeover of Houston ISD can end, Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath announced Monday. In addition, four members of the state-appointed Board of ...

Chicagoans with long memories can hear echoes of the past in the growing crisis around finances at Chicago Public Schools. It was just before Christmas in 1979 when CPS, frozen out of debt markets and ...