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Search results for "false statistics" ...
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State Oversight Lax for Vocational Schools
Students who signed up for vocational schools seeking training in computers, health care and cosmetology among other fields of study, have filed 1,177 complaints to California's Bureau for Postsecondary and Vocational Education in the past two years. Bureau administrators admitted to being passive regarding student complaints which were most often about school fraud, false advertising and failure to make refunds. Schools failed, with impugnity, to report satisfactory graduation and job-placement records as required by law. And recently the SEC has opened an investigation of one company, ITT Educational Services, for possible falsified attendance records, grades and job-placement statistics, none of which was caught by California's bureau.
Tags: Vocational training; computer schools; medical care; lack of governmental oversight; cosmetology schools; class action lawsuits
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Six Minutes To Live or Die
This USA Today investigation finds that emergency medical systems in most of the nation's 50 largest cities are fragmented, inconsistent, and slow. The found three major reasons that emergency services in most U.S. cities are saving so few people in life-or-death situations. Many cities' emergency services are undermined by their culture...disagreements and turf wars between fire departments and ambulance services cause deadly delays. Most cities don't measure their performance effectively..if at all. So they can't determine how many lives they're losing, and therefore can't find ways to increase survival rates. Finally, many cities lack the strong leadership needed to improve emergency medical services.
Tags: Medical emergency; paramedic; emergency services industry; statistics; false statistics; response times; 911 dispatch centers; fire trucks; ambulances; EMS; Mayo Clinic; performance; survival rates; delays
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Stolen Valor; How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of its Heroes and its History
Stolen Valor uses military records to examine false statistics and phony stories of veterans of the Vietnam War. The authors show unprosecuted criminals, phony heroes who have become the object of award-winning documentaries and liars and fabricators who have become the subject of best-selling biographies.
Tags: BOOK; Post traumatic stress disorder; FOI
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Cash Register Justice, Punishing the Poor
The Columbus Dispatch engaged in a four-day computer-assisted series to document a modern-day debtor prison where cash weighs heavier than guilt in Ohio's largest municipal court system. Stories exposed a secret cash deal by prosecutors that allowed drunken drivers to keep convictions off their record by paying $1,000; false statistics that hid one of the lowest rates of domestic violence convictions nationally; interesting results with tracking of homeless among other issues.(Sept. 25 - 28, 1995)
Tags: Berens CAR Cash Register Justice Supreme court Jail overcrowding Cash Register Justice 34 pgs.