Trainees are starting rotations in new departments without rudimentary knowledge about their role and responsibilities in that department, where to find equipment and documentation, who to contact and how to contact them, local preferences, policies and procedures.
But even assuming that diversity is a compelling goal, the court wrote, it still does not necessarily justify a rigid racial preference policy.
In a reversal, New York City school officials on Wednesday said they would continue their sibling-preference policy for gifted and talented programs that have more eligible students than seats.
I read with interest "A Policy Shift in Programs for the Gifted Is Abandoned" (news article, Dec. 20), reporting that New York City would continue its sibling-preference policy for gifted and talented programs.
Changing the sibling-preference policy poses incredible challenges to families, many of whom are low income, who would be forced to shuttle their children between multiple schools, often in multiple boroughs.
In 1974, the Court had accepted for decision a similar case involving a race-preference policy at the University of Washington Law School.
Le Pen then declared that his party would implement its "national preference" policy, with the risk of provoking the central government and being at odds with the laws of the Republic.
Ten years ago he was one of few politicians to criticise welfare and racial-preference policies.
The test procedure in most previous studies included β− and σ− convergence which were based on restrictive assumptions that countries follow the same growth path due to, for example, having common technology, similar preference, policies and potential for growth.
Racial preference policies are no longer a viable solution for addressing disparities in a nation as ethnically diverse as ours.
