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...said he is also conscious of what his background as a Korean immigrant means to his role as dean...
...Because of my background in school improvement and change I would have pushed for a process that used explicit criteria, data, and legitimate community input. I would have also pushed the committee to stick to the original timeline and make a decision much earlier than the current school committee...
...hiring, monitoring and training of screeners, and the agency says it's making changes. A better training program is being put in place for both screeners and supervisors, and all screeners must now be recertified annually. The TSA says it met its self-imposed Sept. 29 deadline for finishing background checks on screeners, whose fingerprints are now on file with the FBI, and it told TIME that it had to let go of 4% of screeners because they did not pass muster...
...program is getting an overhaul. The TSA is ceding command this week over the marshals to the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. A hiring freeze imposed last year is ending, with plans to replace some of the frequent-flying cops lost through attrition or failure to pass background checks...
...culture has changed. The place feels different, and not everybody is comfortable with that. Everybody you meet at Packer is carrying a laptop. Kids in the hall wave wireless cards and argue about where to download drivers. When teachers talk, there's a low, collective clicking sound in the background--the sound of hundreds of fingers taking notes via keyboard. "It was painful for me," admits Elissa Krebs, who heads the English Department at Packer. "Inevitably you would just have lines of seventh- and eighth-graders up against the walls with their energy completely focused on their laptops, en masse...