Several other private equity firms, including the Carlyle Group and Riverstone Holdings, have already agreed to pay settlements and to stop using placement agents.
Carlyle declined to comment on its knowledge of Mr. Morris's suspected activities, and has stopped using placement agents when seeking money from public pension funds.
Its website, which claims its service is a "unique, flexible and quite unbeatable solution to your staffing requirements", adds: "Using this method, one of our clients has been using placement students continuously as their Office & Admin Manager … since 1997!
The Carlyle Group, one of the world's most prominent private equity firms, also said it would stop using placement agents in any pension deals in the United States, formalizing a step taken two years ago when the pension inquiries first began.
"If two of the largest pension funds in the country and one of the nation's largest private equity firms can agree to stop using placement agents, it is possible to implement this reform across the board," Mr. Cuomo said.
Both the city and state stopped using placement agents last April after two top advisers to Alan Hevesi, the former state comptroller, were charged with corruption and violation of federal securities law relating to their "private" work as placement agents.
Several states are looking for better tests; Connecticut, for one, has proposed eliminating remediation altogether, and instead using placement tests to select students for "embedded supports" in college-level courses.
When the efficiency is insufficient despite using placement optimization, the size or number of piezoelectric elements is increased.
Each outcome variable was modeled in both univariate and multivariate settings using placement in foster care as an independent risk factor.
We should use placements to open up the curriculum and show students how their academic knowledge can be applied in real life settings.
