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...teachers. Like about half the states, Washington is now tracking whether students' test scores improve over time under a given teacher. Rhee wants to use that data to decide who gets paid more--and, in combination with classroom evaluation, who keeps the job. But many teachers do not trust her to do this fairly, and the union bristles at the idea of giving up tenure, the exceptional job security that teachers enjoy...
...Napolitano's other obvious distinction is that, as a governor, she can be expected to have much more sympathy for states, which have felt disrespected and excluded under a top-down approach to homeland-security issues since 9/11. "The trust between federal, state and locals is just not there," says Ray Scheppach, executive director of the National Governors Association. Governors, including Napolitano, have protested the costs of REAL ID, a 2005 law passed by Congress to upgrade the security of drivers' licenses, as well as the failure of the Federal Government to take a lead in repairing the country...
...great job,' it would have been overwhelmingly FEMA," says Scheppach. "Now, if I ask what is the one organization that is a failure, they would probably point to FEMA." Scheppach, who knows Napolitano from her time as chair of his organization, expects that she will work to rebuild the trust between the Feds and the locals, which will go a long way toward fixing FEMA. "She's smart, she reaches out well, but she knows how to move things. She's pretty highly respected among governors on both sides of the aisle...
Kyle Q. Haddad-Fonda ’09 and Malorie N. Snider ’09 have been named among the 32 American men and women chosen as Rhodes Scholars, according to a press release issued by the Rhodes Trust Saturday. The Rhodes Scholarship, one of the most widely recognized academic scholarships in the world, provides an all-expenses paid academic experience at the University of Oxford in England. The criteria for selection include “high academic achievement, integrity of character, a spirit of unselfishness, respect for others potential for leadership, and physical vigor,” according...
...Hardly surprising, then, that Iraqi officials don't trust the U.S. military's screening process. "We know that the Americans have been misled by some of the sheiks," says Hadi al-Ameri, who heads the Iraqi parliament's security committee. In some cases, he says, the sheiks were simply providing false names in order to extract more money from the U.S. military. (Al-Ameri says there are only 57,000 legitimate SOI; the U.S. military says there are nearly twice that number.) In private, other Iraqi officials worry that some tribal leaders have taken money from both the Americans...