Word: florida
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...temperatures that have been blamed for 50 deaths across the U.S., 30 of them in Texas, which has hit triple digits every day for two weeks. With El Nino's help, a high-pressure zone has been anchored over the South for several months, robbing places like Texas and Florida of the thunderstorms and cooling rains that usually bring relief at this time of year...
When students in Clementine Johnson's typing class began throwing books and dismantling typewriters six years ago, she didn't send anyone to detention. Instead she gleefully tossed back. Then, according to the Florida Times-Union, after the principal called her class unruly, she wrote a loopy letter describing the "living flesh on my true hereditary genes bones." Finally she changed her surname...
...decision to fire Johnson--sorry, "Ms. God"--may seem like a no-brainer. But in fact she stayed on the job another year, presumably enlivening class but probably not serving Florida's future terribly well. How did she stay so long? She chose the right career: rigid work rules and languorous appeals procedures make teaching a profession from which it is almost impossible to be fired. Which isn't to demean the millions of teachers who work hard for sweatshop wages. But when, for example, only .02% of Florida teachers were dismissed for incompetence last year, you know there...
Nonetheless, in the past few years several states have streamlined their firing procedures, and some have ended tenure altogether. Next year, for instance, Florida will cut to 90 days the time a teacher has to show improvement before a dismissal hearing. New York now requires most of these hearings to last less than 60 days. In 1995 South Dakota repealed its tenure laws, so teachers can be fired for just cause...
...registration. In Fresno, Calif., only 23,000 out of 26,000 appeared. The showing at War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock was better, with 15,500 out of a hoped-for 15,721. But the stadium can hold 53,500, and it looked empty. Returns from recent events in Florida and Tennessee were mixed...