Under a bright blue sky, Gov. Tom Wolf and first lady Frances Wolf hosted several dozen prekindergarten students and their families on the lawn of the Governor’s Residence in Harrisburg for an Easter egg hunt Monday.

Advocates for children in Pennsylvania are expressing some concern over the Republican-sponsored budget proposal that cleared the state House last week.

Does education funding affect student achievement? State data suggests a link between the two.

All of a sudden, Medicaid is trendy again. The governor of Kansas vetoed a bill on Thursday that would have expanded Medicaid in his state. But the legislature is reserving the option of trying to override the veto and Virginia and North Carolina are moving toward expansion. Several other states are considering it.

Senior House Republicans said Thursday that they expected the federal government to continue paying billions of dollars in subsidies to health insurance companies to keep low-income people covered under the Affordable Care Act for the rest of this year – and perhaps for 2018 as well.