Most of the 1,200 other charter schools in 27 states are started by parents and teachers or local chapters of civic groups like the Urban League and the YMCA.
Many states are starting to address climate change concerns.
A handful of other states are starting similar programs.
And a dozen states are starting to make Wall Street nervous.
Many states are starting to gather cellphone-related crash data, but for the most part, the verdict is still out.
States are starting to approve insurance plans for their exchanges, and some premium estimates are lower than had been expected, but final financial information isn't available yet.
In the face of these facts, some states are starting to move away from this costly, 30-year-old failed experiment.
But bipartisan sentencing reforms in a growing number of states are starting to reverse that trend — causing the prison population to decline by about 3.8 percent since 2009.
Even as the battle continues, the Pentagon has begun exploring legal options to delay or avoid cleanups, in part because states are starting to set their own standards.
But other states are starting to craft plans to subsidize nuclear power generation, which accounts for 20% of the nation's total electricity production.
Our incarceration rate is the world's highest, although there are signs, finally, that fiscally strapped states are starting to see the folly, if not the inhumanity, of wasting so much human capital through mass incarceration.
