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...while committee members had expressed hope earlier in the week that the faculty would make some kind of decision yesterday, time considerations did not permit for much deliberation after the presentations, leaving few clues of where the overall faculty stands on the issue...
Alternative routes to certification are an option for those who have not participated in UTEP. School systems with teacher shortages may permit applicants to begin teaching on a provisional basis while securing certification through classwork when the work day ends...
...reason the U.S. voting rate is so low is that each state -- and even some election districts -- has its own tangle of registration requirements and procedures. The discouraging maze keeps many citizens from voting. Thus the House in February passed a sweeping reform bill that would permit registration by mail and at various state agencies. Most significantly, anyone receiving or renewing a driver's license would be given a voter-registration form to sign...
Bush continues to promote a constitutional amendment to require a balanced budget. The President also pleads for the line-item veto, which would permit him to excise specific parts of large-appropriations bills. The proposed amendment is an illusion: it would have to allow for unforeseen contingencies such as war, and it would not have much impact for several years. The line- item veto, a scalpel wielded by 41 Governors, might be more difficult to use on the highly complex federal budget...
...firm rhetoric, fluently delivered after four rehearsals and some coaching from image maven Roger Ailes, radiated statesmanship. A compromise, he maintained, was needed not only for the country's economic health but also to permit the U.S. "to function effectively as a great power abroad" -- a potent argument at a time when 100,000 U.S. soldiers are in harm's way in Saudi Arabia. If the negotiations stopped, Bush said, he would demand a decisive vote by Sept. 28 on a comprehensive Administration package. If that failed, he warned, the Gramm-Rudman sequester would ravage public services...