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This Georgia county spent $1 million to avoid paying for one employee’s gender-affirming care

Aliyya Swaby, Lucas Waldron
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America’s adult education system is broken. Here’s how experts say we can fix it

Annie Waldman, Aliyya Swaby, Anna Clark
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The fight against an age-old effort to block Americans from voting

Aliyya Swaby, Annie Waldman
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Texas schools don’t have to require masks, education officials announce

Aliyya Swaby
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Texas Republicans want to keep transgender women out of women’s school sports teams

Kate McGee, Aliyya Swaby
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Texas schools are being compelled to reopen classrooms on the state’s timetable, like it or not

Aliyya Swaby, Stacy Fernández