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From the Data, Educational Disparities Emerge
The analyses showed stark racial and ethnic disparities in student retentions, but states continue to plow forward with the policies, doing almost no analyses on their own. The racial gaps surprised even experts.
Tags: racial gaps; education
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Deported: Until we meet again
For many Ohio jails and retention offices, illegal immigrants can mean big bucks. Contracts with Immigration and Customs Enforcement could allow some sheriff departments to create revenue by keeping immigrants who are waiting to be deported. Many deportees who are eventually deported say they will come back to the U.S.
Tags: Immigration and Customs Enforcement; deportation; deportees; El Salvador; taxpayers; illegal immigration
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Consumers in the dark
In this report, the Plain Dealer details how a prominent consumers' counsel deprived the publics of millions of dollars by destroying a crucial consultant's report. From the questionnaire, "Tongren kept an important consultant's report --paid for with dollars -- from the public that might have trimmed billions of dollars off FirstEnergy Corp.'s deregulation charges -- charges that are still being tracked onto electric bills years later". Furthermore, the report revealed, "Tongren had changed a records retention policy that allowed the report to be destroyed years ahead of the old schedule, and that he knowingly cleared the policy change despite numerous requests for the report while it was still protected due to ongoing litigation".
Tags: Public Utilities Commission of Ohio; LaCapra Associates; Kim Norris
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Pay for No Performance
The Wall Street Journal investigates the trend of "risk-free" compensation for chief executive officers. "CEOs were supposed to get top dollar only when they got top results," the report begins. "Now, many are getting top dollar no matter what the results." The article uses information from a survey conducted by William Mercer, Inc. for the WSJ, and finds salaries, bonuses, and especially stock options, are sending CEO compensation skyward, while at the same so-called "risk-free packages" are eroding the "linkage between pay and performance."
Tags: wall street; CEO; chief executive; bonus; performance bonus; stock options; grant; megagrant; compensation; retention; stock market
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Lab Rats
A New Times investigation reports on "a litany of veiled, disingenuous and sometimes fraudulent financial schemes that badly damaged the university's other primary missions." On the basis of internal financial records and memos provided by professors and former administrators, the story depicts a "history of misspending of state revenue bonds and federal grants," as well as "a history of university administrators destroying the careers of those who complained..." The University of Arizona succeeded in becoming one of the top 20 public research institutions in the country, after a massive effort in this direction, which started in the 80s. However, the reporter finds, it slipped "in critical categories such as faculty salaries and student retention."
Tags: public records; higher education; universities; colleges; fraud; construction; debt; Large Binocular Telescope project; life sciences
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Roaming Rikers
Jennifer Gonnerman reports on Rikers Island, "home to 80 percent of its 14,600 or so inmates, with nine jails for men and one for women." The in-depth article details life in these jails and illustrates the difference between men and women behind bars. In addition, the article provides insight into punishment, discipline structure and morale in this multi-million dollar jail system through interviews with wardens, commissioners and inmates. Gonnerman also examines issues including violence, gangs, suicide, pregnancy and retention.
Tags: prisons; prisoners; guards; crime; suicide; police; wardens; pregnancy; gangs; weapons; defense
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Justice on the run
The American Lawyer examines a controversial abortion case that could cost two members of the California Supreme Court their jobs. With their retention elections drawing near, the judges are scurrying for campaign dollars and support while their opponents prepare to attack.