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Texas education agency is ready to take over Houston ISD, documents show
Sign up for The Short, The Texas Tribune’s everyday publication that retains visitors up to velocity on the most important Texas news. Documents observed on the Texas Education and learning Agency’s website display that the point out is ready to appoint new leaders to consider charge of the Houston Independent College District. A job putting up searching for candidates to utilize for a new board of administrators to oversee the state’s greatest faculty district and a slideshow detailing the tasks of the entire body could be observed in the TEA’s internet site in advance of they have been taken down Tuesday night time. The Texas Tribune saved copies of each…
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Congress Told HHS to Set Up a Health Data Network in 2006. The Agency Still Hasn’t.
In early 2020, as they tried using to fight covid-19 across two rural counties in North Carolina, the team of Granville Vance Community Health and fitness was stymied, relying on outdated engineering to observe a quick-shifting pandemic. Lisa Macon Harrison, the agency’s health director, explained her nurses’ contact-tracing process expected manually moving into situation information and facts into five details methods. One particular was decades aged and sophisticated. Another was created of Excel spreadsheets. None labored well together or with systems at other stages of government. “We ended up applying a ton of assets placing an inordinate sum of information into multiple units that weren’t always scaled to communicate to…
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Much of the CDC Is Working Remotely. That Could Make Changing the Agency Difficult.
Sam Whitehead ATLANTA — Previously this yr, major management at the Centers for Ailment Handle and Prevention began a monumental endeavor: turning the sprawling, labyrinthine group known for its really specialised, academically concentrated scientific research into a sleek, versatile general public health response agency primed to serve the American public. It is an try to maintain the CDC from repeating the issues it built while responding to covid-19. But company veterans, outdoors public wellbeing officers, and workplace organization specialists reported the recent place of work structure could be a significant barrier to that intention. Like administrators in advance of her, company head Dr. Rochelle Walensky spends a substantial sum of…
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