Word: limiters
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...High Court also today took up a political football, hearing arguments for and againstterm limits for members of Congress. The Court -- which will take an initial, private vote on an Arkansas case on Friday but not issue a decision until June -- seemed leery of both sides' constitutional logic. "It's very close," Justice Antonin Scalia said. After the 90-minute session, one term-limit opponent, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), joked: "It is pretty clear the voters are taking care of the problem." BTW: Twenty-two states have approved various forms of term limits since 1990.Post your opinion on theWashingtonbulletin...
...then-Expos director Richard C. Marius implemented the four-year limit after several veteran teachers challenged his policies. Before and for some time after Marius' decision, preceptors were told they could stay for eight years, and some teachers said they contemplated lawsuits after learning differently...
While they praised the change, both current and former preceptors said the program must do more to keep good teachers. Several teachers and administrators have said they see no need for any limit on teacher terms...
George Packer, a teacher who left the program in 1993 because of the limit, said he sees the recent change as an acknowledgement of the problems with the four-year rule...
Asked whether there could be further changes to the limit on teacher terms, Sommers called the recent change "the final decision...