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FAA
Embarks on Hiring Marathon
Federal Times
By Stephen Losey
The Federal Aviation Administration aims to grow the size of its air traffic controller staff by about 1,600 over the next
nine years. That won't be easy given that about 12,300 air traffic controllers are expected to leave the agency during that period, mostly because of
retirements.
So the agency is embarking on a nine-year hiring marathon in which it plans to hire roughly 1,400 to 1,800 new
controllers a year.
To do that, it has streamlined the way it recruits and hires new controllers.
And this year, the agency began holding
hiring fairs around the country in which the agency subjects promising job candidates to a barrage of interviews, paperwork, tests, medical screenings
and other steps -- all in a single day.
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Harvard Law, Hoping Students Will Consider Public Service,
Offers Tuition Break
New York Times
By Jonathan D. Glater
Concerned by the low numbers of law students choosing careers in public
service, Harvard Law School plans to waive tuition for third-year students who pledge to spend five years working either for nonprofit organizations
or the government.
The program, to be announced Tuesday, would save students more than $40,000 in tuition and follows by scant months the
announcement of a sharp increase in financial aid to Harvard's undergraduates. The law school, which already has a loan forgiveness program for
students choosing public service, said it knew of no other law school offering such a tuition incentive.
"We know that debt is a big issue,"
said Elena Kagan, dean of the law school. "We have tried to address that over the years with a very generous loan forgiveness program, but we started
to think that we could do better."
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