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...thing to consider is the three committees inevitably have a huge amount of overlap,” she said. The UC discussed the merits of increasing its membership to three people per district during the meeting. The discussion was only the beginning of the UC’s effort to reevaluate it’s structure in light of the Dowling Report. Discussions will take place in FiCom and SAC committee meetings this week and will continue throughout the semester. UC parliamentarian Eric N. Hysen ’11, who helped to facilitate the meeting, said he expected the process...
...yesterday, the Boston Globe’s City Weekly section, which covered Cambridge news for 17 years, has officially published its final issue. (Can we get a tear? Anyone? Hello?) The section was terminated in an effort to cut costs; local Cambridge, Somerville, and Brookline news will continue to be covered on Boston.com, the Globe’s website.Cambridge news is now only covered in print by The Cambridge Chronicle (a weekly) and by us. Several blogs, though, deliver city news, including the Chronicle's Cantabrigia. We at FlyBy are actually quite amused by the massive list of less...
...explanation is largely political. Teachers’ unions stick to seniority-based layoff policies because they prioritize job protection, even above student welfare. Teachers should be given the privilege of staying power, however, due to merit, not merely the length of time worked. School districts should certainly make every effort to retain good teachers that have worked for many years, but, if cuts need to be made, they should focus on letting go ineffective teachers instead of simply targeting new ones. If layoffs must be made, they should be done so based on a combination of seniority, years of teaching...
...officials say all this effort is bearing fruit. "We are on track to meet the hiring goals set forth by former President Bush in 2004, which mandated that we increase by 50% the number of CIA officers in certain job occupations, such as intelligence analysts and clandestine officers," says Little...
...pleased with their effort,” Miller said. “They hustled, they tried to stay in structure the whole time, and they did little things right. You want to constantly work and work and focus on fundamentals and make good decisions, and I thought they did that for most of the game...