Word: crisises
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This crisis is the result of the implementation of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS), a series of statewide standardized tests that every high school student must pass to graduate, beginning with the class of 2003. This high-stakes, high-standards test is the first in the nation to require...
Like many other Democrats, Mark McKinnon for a long time had little use for George W. Bush. A media consultant based in Austin, Texas, McKinnon had toiled for Democratic candidates for years, and once he nearly took a job with Bill Clinton. In 1990 he helped Ann Richards become Texas...
"We probably have one of the strongest campus-based rape crisis programs in the country," Wallace said.
University spokespersons emphasized that all actions implemented were temporary. Pitoniak said that the measures outlined by Chancellor Scott were only guaranteed until the crisis ends, at which point "everything will be reassessed."
Pitoniak said she did not know how officials would decide when the crisis had passed and the university would return to its normal precautions.