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Aside from personnel, the school system will also be making other cutbacks, such as reducing the number of ads it places in The Boston Globe, cutting back the material and professional development budgets, and eliminating the Jump Start Program. Each school will also experience a reduction in its building-based accounts and general materials budget...
...Noonan-Pomada, who works at a Boston elementary school through the AmeriCorps program City Year, said that he was “reinvigorated” by the panelists’ commitment to social change...
...money-back guarantee is only open to a total of 61 students in Lansing's pilot program. And the applicants are expected to be élite and competitive, says Ellen Jones, the college's director of public affairs. (All must have a high school degree.) Those who are accepted can't miss any class or assignments. They have to go through employability skill training and attend job fairs, and after they complete one of the six-week training courses, they must prove that they're actively applying for jobs. (See 10 perfect jobs for the recession - and after...
Whitehurst says he would rather see community colleges and technical institutions providing more information about program-completion rates among students and their employment outcomes. This kind of transparency would allow prospective applicants to make more informed decisions instead of gambling their futures away. "Currently we just don't have that in post-secondary education," he says. (See pictures of college mascots...
...while retention of "nuclear-burden sharing" may cause Obama problems internationally, it is part of a raft of compromises in the review meant to appease critics in the Senate, who may be needed to ratify international arms-control treaties, according to George Perkovich, director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. "Senate ratification is required to take even some of the earliest, easiest steps on the long road toward global nuclear disarmament," he says. "Obama could have offered a righteous posture review - but then had nothing concrete to show for it in terms of actual...