Possible assistants Ryan may bring with him include: Mike Pettine, the outside linebackers coach in Baltimore and a candidate for defensive coordinator; and Hue Jackson, the Ravens' quarterbacks coach, who could become offensive coordinator if Schottenheimer, who is under contract, decides to leave.
"If a student does not meet those goals," Dr. Davis said, "the child, parent and teacher meet to re-evaluate the contract, decide whether those goals were realistic, and develop a new one that will guarantee the success of the student".
There is also a demand for more stringent certification standards, a challenge to university presidents to herd honor students toward teaching, and a potentially dicey insistence that principals, not union contracts, decide who works for them.
Ross returned to the Beeb, completed his contract, and decided it was time to move on.
Mr. Darnell and his superiors at Fox said that he was offered a new contract but decided to leave.
But Delgado, who is in the last year of his contract, has decided that 2009 will not be his final season.
Punter Kyle Richardson and the veteran defensive end Tony Siragusa, despite being under contract, have decided to hold out to try to secure better deals.
In 1963, however, when it came time to renew her contract, she decided instead to sign with her manager Monte Kay's small label, FM.
But the union, the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, won a court case last year that upheld its right to have its contract disputes decided by binding arbitration before the state board instead of the city's Office of Collective Bargaining.
But that morning, when it was learned that the Nets' management was apparently still tinkering with the contract, Massimino decided to stay as far from the Nets as possible, which meant staying in Philadelphia.
