I'm sorry, either I slipped through a crack in the wall, or it's geoblocked. I had no idea. But if there's a crack, it's ridiculously wide. All I did was google "APS cheating scandal" and follow the AJC's link...
It was appropriate here. The racketeering charge was based on the conspiracy, extortion and bribery they committed, and the corrupted organization was the Board of Ed.
They didn't just cheat, they threatened people with violence, defrauded the government and charitable organizations, committed criminal malfeasance and official corruption, and on and on....
Actually it is illegal for the teachers to alter the tests. And it was done to defraud the government.
Then there was the extortion, bribery, conspiracy, etc.
So my guess is that you didn't actually read up on what happened. I live just outside Atlanta, and this has been a big story for over a year. What happened was far worse than you seem to think.
Mostly because of the bribery, conspiracy and extortion, but there were other racketeering activities as well. And they needed RICO to crack open the board's records and charge everyone involved.
It wasn't just, "Hey, lets cheat!", there was also quite a lot of, "Play along or we'll burn your house down."
That's a smaller part of the problem than you may think. STEM grads can make more money by going into non-STEM fields, or they start in a STEM job and quickly leverage that experience to move out of STEM into something more lucrative. https://www.census.gov/dataviz...
Only 65,000 H1B's are issued per year. Considering there are over a quarter million STEM grads per year, the visas are unlikely to be having that great an effect.
Government can do things to encourage students to go into STEM programs, but it can't increase the relative market value of STEM jobs. Not without an exceptionally good reason to directly hire most grads for STEM jobs with salaries far above current market rates.
First, religious expression is already protected, so the bill is kind of a waste of time. On the other hand, everyone is also protected by federal anti-discrimination laws, so this absolutely cannot be used by a business to discriminate against anyone. So, it's really a moot issue.
The federal government has a pretty lousy track record with websites, but I have to wonder if broadband providers are intentionally giving false information to the FCC to inflate coverage stats. As much as I'd like for him to be able to sue to recover the money he's going to lose, I think it would have to be shown that Comcast lied to the FCC first. And that could take years.
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Are the insurers expecting the inducer to pay for damages? Are they insuring the inducers against damage caused?
I'm sorry, either I slipped through a crack in the wall, or it's geoblocked. I had no idea. But if there's a crack, it's ridiculously wide. All I did was google "APS cheating scandal" and follow the AJC's link...
Apparently they needed RICO to carry out the investigation. The board had been... uncooperative.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the paper that broke the story, has pretty much everything on it here http://www.ajc.com/list/news/e...
Read up on what they did to keep it going and you'll understand.
So what are you saying, "Thank god they were black, because if they were white they may have gotten away with it"?
How are you going to measure without numbers?
Well, she would have been, but she died. Hence "11 of 12".
Read up on what happened. It was far worse than you think.
They didn't just cheat, they threatened people with violence, defrauded the government and charitable organizations, committed criminal malfeasance and official corruption, and on and on....
So my guess is that you didn't actually read up on what happened. I live just outside Atlanta, and this has been a big story for over a year. What happened was far worse than you seem to think.
Except the situation was far worse than you think, and Hall wasn't a Republican.
It wasn't just, "Hey, lets cheat!", there was also quite a lot of, "Play along or we'll burn your house down."
Anyhow, it worked out very humorously this morning considering that the article is about ancient medicine.
Public policy must absolutely NOT be based on logical fallacies!
That's quite the showing considering the strength of Democrats in California and Boxer's accrued power.
Only 65,000 H1B's are issued per year. Considering there are over a quarter million STEM grads per year, the visas are unlikely to be having that great an effect.
Government can do things to encourage students to go into STEM programs, but it can't increase the relative market value of STEM jobs. Not without an exceptionally good reason to directly hire most grads for STEM jobs with salaries far above current market rates.
Nano scale sensors on a micro scale organism?
Step 2 is remote control, like what they're doing with cockroaches.
I have big hands. The average mouse (gaming or otherwise) is just a little too small. Weights are also something I like.
It's an f-ing road! What's with the BS corporate buzzwords?
Besides, it looks like the bill only affects government agencies.
First, religious expression is already protected, so the bill is kind of a waste of time. On the other hand, everyone is also protected by federal anti-discrimination laws, so this absolutely cannot be used by a business to discriminate against anyone. So, it's really a moot issue.
The federal government has a pretty lousy track record with websites, but I have to wonder if broadband providers are intentionally giving false information to the FCC to inflate coverage stats. As much as I'd like for him to be able to sue to recover the money he's going to lose, I think it would have to be shown that Comcast lied to the FCC first. And that could take years.