A tug of war over federal funds for high-speed rail projects has developed in recent weeks since Florida’s Republican Governor Rick Scott rejected $2.4 billion that was allotted by President Obama for a high-speed rail project that would have connected…

(This guest post was authored by David Young, founder and CEO of Young and Associates/Solutions for Local Governments. Mr. Young is a former county commissioner for Buncombe County, N.C., where he served for 16 years. He is the former president…

If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing correctly! Dot the Is, cross the Ts and get the numbers right! This seems to be the growing mantra in the federal government concerning reporting on federal awards.

Democrats and Republicans found common ground today on temporary measures to avoid a government shutdown.

(This post is excerpted from an alert to Thompson subscribers and was written by Charles Edwards, senior executive director for Thompson’s education products.) A two-week funding extension proposed by House Republicans last Friday would cut $4 billion, foreshadowing larger cuts…

Cloudy with a chance of crackdown… Are you reeling from all the talk of continuing resolutions, partisan politics, and D.C. one-cuts-manship?  Disappointed that you stayed up to watch the Oscars and your favorite movie didn’t win?  Disoriented by the wacky…

(This post was written by guest blogger Andrew Brownstein, one of Thompson’s federal education policy editors.) The chief federal mechanism to deal with inequity across public schools is called comparability. This requirement that school districts give Title I schools state…

(This post was written by guest blogger Andrew Brownstein, one of Thompson’s federal education policy editors.) When a federal commission meets for the first time, it is customary for members to declare that they don’t want their work to “just…

Like death and taxes, the federal government is one of those things that’s always certain to be humming along in the background, right?!  If the D.C. powers that be don’t pass a spending bill by March 4, that humming will…

Food, glorious food! How can something so vital be such a problem? When it involves grant dollars, that’s when.