A reader recommends
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Never judge a book by its cover. The latest edition of A Manual for Governing Bodies and Their Clerks landed on my desk last week with a thump, and I must admit that I didn’t exactly rush to rip it open.The guide, published by Information for School and College Governors (ISCG), is quite a weighty [...]
Playwhereyouwant bill debated
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Right now students can attend any high school they choose on two conditions there is room at the school and the reason for the transfer is not athletics.
Senator Mark Madsen, R-Eagle Mountain, wants to change that.
“I realize that I am committing heresy [...]
Measure for measure
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Governors got caught in the crossfire last week when the government adviser Sir Cyril Taylor claimed that there were about 17,000 “poor” teachers and that they should be removed.Taylor, chairman of the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust, said the sub-standard staff were damaging the education of about 400,000 children, and he called on heads to [...]
A warning against coasting
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A third of governors are failing and another four out of every 10 are coasting and just doing enough to tick the statutory boxes. Their ineptitude is being covered up by headteachers, who are having to act as chair of governors.That is the woeful assessment of leading educationist Roy Evans, who has produced a damning [...]
Brewer boldly wears a headband
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NEW ORLEANS Jazz guard Ronnie Brewer wore a headband, harkening back to his college days at the University of Arkansas. He even doubled up his socks, wearing different colors, and had rubber bands on his wrist.
Clearly, Jazz coach Jerry Sloan is not in town for [...]
Business travelers families can pick own line at airport
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Business travelers no longer have to wait behind vacationing families with their line-clogging strollers and kids climbing on stanchions at the Salt Lake City International Airport.
And those family types won’t have to listen to the uptight guys in suits grumbling in line behind them.
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Further expansion on the cards
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Nobody likes to lose a monopoly, especially if it includes social status as well as money.Whatever other reasons universities have had for objecting to colleges being granted the right to award their own foundation degrees, part of the chagrin sounds like the resentment of the exclusive club member affronted at the sort of people being [...]
Spain#39;s Zapatero Assailed by Church Over Gay Marriage (Update1)
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Feb. 7 (Bloomberg) — It isnt just Peoples Party leader
Mariano Rajoy whos running against Spanish Prime Minister Jose
Luis Rodriguez Zapatero.
Spains Catholic bishops, angered by the prime ministers
decisions to legalize gay marriage [...]
Sorenson left all to charity
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The family of Utah inventor and billionaire philanthropist James LeVoy Sorenson said Monday that he willed his entire personal fortune to charity.
Sorenson died of cancer last month at age 86.
Last year, Forbes Magazine estimated his wealth to be approximately $4.5 billion.
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Noni juice may have killed man in Spain
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PROVO Residents of Spain were alerted last week to avoid consuming certain bottles of Tahitian Noni Juice while a health department there awaits toxicology reports for a man who died after drinking Noni juice.
According to reports in Spain, a 40-year-old man from Ogijares located in [...]
