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...plans to telephone all affected students and present them with three options: they can have their tests scored and reported normally if they wish; take a retest on May 17--a specially scheduled date--or June 7 or 8, the next regularly scheduled date; or get a full test fee refund...
Stein said she will take the retest-- but is far from happy about it. "It's reallyunfair that there's so much emphasis on a testthat makes mistakes like this. It messes up ourspring. Now we have to study for Achievements andSATs at the same time...
...worst of all, Mary Ellen Fischer, an SATadvisor for Stanley Kaplan Educational Services inNewton, predicted that most students won't improvetheir scores on the retest. She likened the retestto an extension on a paper: "When you get anextension, do you go right home and start writing,or do you let it wait for two weeks and then cramthe night before...
...Southern Pacific is also being sued by a former employee who was fired after she refused to submit to the urinalysis. In Washington a school-bus aide, who registered positive for drugs in a urine test, was fired by the school district even though she was cleared in a retest; she too is suing. May an employer invade the privacy of workers, even to the extent of inspecting their bodily fluids? The answer is unclear, in part because laws vary from state to state. But courts often try to draw a distinction between the examination of external evidence--fingerprints...
...survive depends on how quickly and convincingly it can make amends with Government officials. Last week the agency approved PBA's initial plan for bringing its operating procedures into line and allowed the airline to resume some flights. PBA's plan, though, requires the airline to retest its pilots and rewrite its training manual and may take weeks to accomplish. Meanwhile, PBA's competitors are already scooping up its customers...