Every time an election looms, Baton Rouge resident Ashley Shelton notices the red flags — the signs sprinkled around the city and other parts of Louisiana that give the wrong information about when ...

North Carolina's constitution still includes outdated language from a literacy test used to disenfranchise Black voters. Rep. Terry Brown, D-Mecklenburg, is leading a bipartisan group of lawmakers ...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 banned the use of literacy tests for voting, because the tests were being used as a tool of racial disenfranchisement. But New York is going a lot further than that — ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- The push to remove an illegal voting literacy test from the North Carolina Constitution is once again up for debate in the General Assembly. Some lawmakers have been trying for ...

The state’s top senator said Tuesday that a literacy test for voters “ought to be out of our constitution” and he’s ready to remove it. It’s not the first time that state lawmakers have wanted to ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — A House committee ...

AS CHILDREN RETURN TO PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN MARYLAND, THE STATE COMPREHENSIVE POLICY ON LITERACY IS STILL UNDERGOING CHANGES. THIS FOCUS ON LITERACY IS TOP LINE PRIORITY FOR US AS WE AS WE LOOK TO TRULY ...

Cleveland Elementary School teacher Katia Rodriguez-Mester, left, shows an mCLASS reading test to Principal Gabriel Sandoval and Denise Alvarado, executive director of elementary education for the ...