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NEWS: Feb. 22, 2012 Education | Chicago Study Slams Turnaround Schools' Results Dozens of neighborhood schools with at least 95 percent low-income students not only outscored equally poor schools cleared out of all staff and "turned around" by the Academy for Urban School Leadership, at a cost averaging $7 million per school over five years, but even beat the city test-score average, according to a new study. >> Chicago Sun-Times Philadelphia's Turnaround Schools Get Good Marks A report on Philadelphia's nationally watched "Renaissance Schools" turnaround effort finds that student achievement and attendance both at district-run overhauled K-8 schools and at those turned over to charters outpaced gains at comparable city schools. >> Philadelphia Inquirer Court Ruling Ousts Michigan City's Schools Overseer The emergency manager of the financially troubled Highland Park, Mich., schools must step down due to a court ruling that his appointment was invalid, Gov. Rick Snyder said. >> Detroit News
DHS: New 'Virtual Fence' Must Use Available Technologies Unwilling to risk another money-losing venture, the Department of Homeland Security says it plans to scrap a second attempt at a failed $1 billion "virtual fence" along the border with Mexico if officials are unable to find technologies already on the market that can operate in the rugged Southwest. >> Nextgov Western States to Modernize Shared Criminal-ID System A consortium of state and local law enforcement agencies in eight western states contracted to modernize a shared criminal-identification system, giving the network advanced capabilities such as high-resolution palm and fingerprint matching. >> Government Technology Air Force Special Operations Unit Cancels iPad Buy The Air Force Special Operations Command canceled its planned acquisition of 2,861 Apple iPad tablet computers two days after being asked by Nextgov about Russian-developed security and document-reader software specified in procurement documents. >> Nextgov NIST to Launch Cybersecurity Research Center The National Institute of Standards and Technology is establishing the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, a public-private collaboration aimed at accelerating the widespread adoption of integrated cybersecurity tools and technologies. >> GovInfoSecurity.com
Voters Oust Alcoholic Mayor Mayor Bob Ryan, an admitted alcoholic whose public drinking and behavior brought national attention to the city of 50,000, was ousted from office Tuesday in a recall election. Ryan's term will be completed by Terry Van Akkeren, a former state representative who lost the mayor's race to Ryan three years ago. >> Milwaukee Journal Sentinel California's Top Labor-Relations Official Departing Amid layoffs, budget cuts and looming union-contract talks, California's top labor-relations official is stepping down. A Department of Personnel Administration spokeswoman said Ronald Yank is leaving "around the end of this month." >> Sacramento Bee Arizona Sheriff Faces Probe over Deportation Accusation Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne agreed to investigate accusations by the male lover of Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu that Babeu threatened to deport him if he made their relationship public. >> Reuters The Military | The Nation Panel: Mortuary Operations Need More Oversight The military should conduct regular inspections, tighten training standards and increase oversight over its mortuary operations, according to the group tasked with assessing operations at the Dover, Del., Air Force Base mortuary after a scandal involving the mishandled remains of fallen troops. >> Military Times Pentagon Program Cuts Chosen to Avoid Termination Fees The Defense Department carefully selected the programs it wants to cancel in fiscal 2013 to avoid contract-termination-fee negotiations that have plagued the Pentagon in prior years. >> Federal Times
Governor's Budget Plan: Close Prisons, Slash Social Services Gov. Pat Quinn will deliver a bad-news budget today, proposing that the state close numerous prisons, mental health centers and social-services offices, cut health care for the poor, and shut down popular tourist sites two days a week at times during the year. Money for schools would remain essentially flat, while most agencies would face budget cuts of 9 percent. >> Chicago Tribune Housing | New York City Judge Blocks New Rules for Homeless Shelters Saying the city failed to follow its own procedure for making rules, a state judge ruled that Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration could not impose a new, much tighter set of regulations on homeless people seeking shelter that aimed to reduce the shelter population by about 10 percent and save the city $4 million a year. >> New York Times >> Follow GovManagement on Twitter >> Share this edition:
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VIEWPOINT Technology | James A. Lewis The Cybersecurity Law We Need When we hear in the debate over cybersecurity legislation now before Congress that getting incentives right and letting the private sector lead or that sharing more information will secure the nation, remember that we've spent 15 years proving that this doesn't work. Some people say the threat to our electronic infrastructure is exaggerated. This is unfortunate. We are on course to repeat the 9/11 error of ignoring risk. >> AOL Government | More commentaries
“There's a point in time where the only thing you can do is offer an apology.” Los Angeles County Supervisor Gloria Molina, on the formal apology issued by the board of supervisors for the county's Depression-era deportations of tens of thousands of Mexicans and Mexican Americans who were part of an estimated two million--more than 60 percent of whom are believed to have been U.S. citizens--who were forced to leave, supposedly to keep them from taking American jobs >> Los Angeles Times | More quotes DATAPOINT 206 Number of sick days that have been racked up over the past year by Cook County, Ill., Circuit Court Judge Vanessa A. Hopkins, the most of any of the county's 411 jurists, with Hopkins saying she's suffering from a shoulder injury "among other things" but refusing to discuss her medical problems further >> Chicago Sun-Times | More data UPCOMING Center for American Progress Discussion: "Race-Baiting and Stereotypes in Public Benefits Debate" Feb. 23, noon-1:15 p.m. ET, Washington, D.C. American Enterprise Institute Book forum: "Clean, Green, Renewable: What Could Go Wrong?" Feb. 24, noon-1:30 p.m. ET, Washington, D.C. Governing magazine Webinar: "Train Your Workforce Without Straining Your Budget" Feb. 29, 1 p.m. ET American Society for Public Administration Annual Conference March 2-6, Las Vegas National Association of Counties Legislative Conference March 3, Washington, D.C. National Association of Insurance Commissioners National Meeting March 3-6, New Orleans Human Capital Institute Human Capital Summit March 5-7, Scottsdale, Ariz. National Association of Attorneys General Spring Meeting March 5-7, Washington, D.C. Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education Program on Crisis Leadership in Higher Education March 5-8, Cambridge, Mass. Ascendant Strategy Management Group Mission-Driven Management Summit March 6-8, Washington, D.C. GovLoop and Bloomberg Government Webinar: "How to Streamline and Improve the Federal Government Acquisition Process" March 8, 2 p.m. ET American Federation of Teachers National Higher Education Issues Conference March 9-11, Washington, D.C. >> Full events listings |
