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Cuts to management and staff
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shortages at the state’s teacher responding to complaints. In 2012,
licensing agency have resulted in the agency cut six positions.
Licensing staff lacked a direct
four-month-long waits for teacher
licenses, years-long investigations manager for nearly two years, while
into teacher misconduct and poor investigators faced high turnover
morale, according to an audit by the and high caseloads, according to the
audit.
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Technology
“The licensing and customer
The agency’s outdated and
service delays can damage the agen-
paper-based
cy’s reputation, complicate school “complicated”
district hiring and make it harder on licensing system also contributed to
educators looking for jobs,” stated delays. The commission’s website
lacked basic information that could
an audit report released Thursday.
The Legislature ordered the have provided answers to teacher’s
emergency audit in 2015 to address licensing questions, the report stated.
The commission, in a response
perennial problems at the Teachers
Standards and Practices Commis- sent to the Secretary of State’s
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sion.
Auditors, who released their Secretary of State’s critique of the
report Thursday, gave the commis- agency.
The commission indicated it
sion credit for making “recent
improvements in service to educa- plans to prioritize resolving backlogs
in licensing and investigations and
tors.”
“But it still faces substantial make changes to increase oversight
backlogs in issuing licenses, investi- of employees, enhance transparency
gating complaints against educators, and boost effectiveness.
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questions,” the report stated.
could help in addressing backlogs
Mismanagement
Commission Executive Director by allowing the agency to add four
Vickie Chamberlain, who, auditors new staff positions and replace
said, received inadequate oversight the archaic licensing system. The
from the 17-member commission, agency’s budget operates solely on
announced her retirement in early licensing fees. Starting Jan. 1., appli-
October in the midst of the audit. cants were scheduled to be able to
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Consumers are already seeing
until a successor could be found.
She told The Oregonian at the some improvements, the report indi-
time that the demands of the job had cated. The average call hold time
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been taking a toll on her.
Chamberlain said the job will minutes in the summer. Investiga-
EHSRVWHGVRRQEXWJDYHQRVSHFL¿F tors are testing a new triage system
timeline. The Department of Admin- to help reduce investigation lengths.
The agency, consisting of 26
istrative Services plans to handle the
recruitment, which will be national employees, licenses 19,000 K-12
teachers a year and investigates
in scope, she said.
“They would like a short transi- hundreds of complaints against
tion with me and the new director,” educators. The commission also
is responsible for disciplining
she said.
Auditors have recommended educators and evaluating education
that the agency set clearer goals to programs for teachers at Oregon
track performance of employees, colleges.
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By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
By SETH BORENSTEIN
AP Science Writer
WASHINGTON — The
amount of man-made heat energy
absorbed by the seas has doubled
since 1997, a study released
Monday showed.
Scientists have long known that
more than 90 percent of the heat
energy from man-made global
warming goes into the world’s
oceans instead of the ground. And
they’ve seen ocean heat content
rise in recent years. But the new
study, using ocean-observing
data that goes back to the British
research ship Challenger in the
1870s and including high-tech
modern underwater monitors and
computer models, tracked how
much man-made heat has been
buried in the oceans in the past
150 years.
The world’s oceans absorbed
approximately 150 zettajoules of
energy from 1865 to 1997, and
then absorbed about another 150
in the next 18 years, according to
a study published Monday in the
journal Nature Climate Change.
To put that in perspective, if
you exploded one atomic bomb
the size of the one that dropped
on Hiroshima every second for
a year, the total energy released
would be 2 zettajoules. So
since 1997, Earth’s oceans have
absorbed man-made heat energy
equivalent to a Hiroshima-style
bomb being exploded every
second for 75 straight years.
“The changes we’re talking
about, they are really, really big
numbers,” said study co-author
Paul Durack, an oceanographer
at the Lawrence Livermore
National Lab in California. “They
are nonhuman numbers.”
Because there are decades
when good data wasn’t available
and computer simulations are
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rough but still are reliable, the
study’s authors said. Most of
the added heat has been trapped
in the upper 2,300 feet, but with
every year the deeper oceans also
are absorbing more energy, they
said.
But the study’s authors and
outside experts say it’s not the
raw numbers that bother them.
It’s how fast those numbers are
increasing.
“After 2000 in particular the
rate of change is really starting to
ramp up,” Durack said.
This means the amount of
Timo Bremer/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory via AP
This image provided by Lawrence Livermore National Labora-
tory shows Paciic and Atlantic meridional sections showing
upper-ocean warming for the past six decades (1955-2011). Red
colors indicate a warming (positive) anomaly and blue colors
indicate a cooling (negative) anomaly.
“These inding have potentially serious
consequences for life in the oceans as well
as for patterns of ocean circulation, storm
tracks and storm intensity.”
— Jane Lubchenco,
Oregon State University marine sciences professor
tially serious consequences for
life in the oceans as well as for
patterns of ocean circulation,
storm tracks and storm intensity,”
said Oregon State University
marine sciences professor Jane
Lubchenco, the former chief of
the National Oceanic and Atmo-
spheric Administration.
One outside scientist, Kevin
Trenberth, climate analysis chief
at the National Center for Atmo-
spheric Research, also has been
looking at ocean heat content and
he said his ongoing work shows
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underestimates” how much heat
the ocean has absorbed.
Jeff Severinghaus at the
Scripps Institute of Oceanog-
raphy praised the study, saying it
“provides real, hard evidence that
humans are dramatically heating
the planet.”
energy being trapped in Earth’s
climate system as a whole is
accelerating, the study’s lead
author Peter Gleckler, a climate
scientist at Lawrence Livermore,
said.
Because the oceans are so vast
and cold, the absorbed heat raises
temperatures by only a few tenths
of a degree, but the importance is
the energy balance, Gleckler and
his colleagues said. When oceans
absorb all that heat it keeps the
surface from getting even warmer
from the heat-trapping gases
spewed by the burning of coal, oil
and gas, the scientists said.
The warmer the oceans get,
the less heat they can absorb and
the more heat stays in the air
and on land surface, the study’s
co-author, Chris Forest at Penn-
sylvania State University, said.
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TODAY
Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Spokane
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Yakima 39/31
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Astoria
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Portland
Enterprise
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The Dalles 44/39
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La Grande
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Albany
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John Day
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Ontario
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Bend
41/31
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Caldwell
Burns
41/31
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Baker City
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Enterprise
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Heppner
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John Day
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Meacham
Medford
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WORLD CITIES
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UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Cloudy today with rain;
steadiest and heaviest during the morning.
Showers early tonight.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Mostly cloudy
today with some snow and rain; snow level
mostly near 4,000 feet.
Western Washington: Periods of rain today;
arriving in the afternoon in central and
northern parts.
Eastern Washington: Snow across the north
today and tonight; any snow mixing with
rain across the south.
Cascades: Periods of snow and rain today
with snow level: 4,000 feet north, 5,000
feet south.
Northern California: Rain, heavy at times
today, but 3-6 inches of snow in the interior
mountains.
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National Summary: Locally heavy snow will fall around the Great Lakes today as accumu-
lating snow spreads over much of the Plains with rain to the south. Rain and mountain
snow will return to the Northwest.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 74° in Harlingen, Texas
Low -34° in Embarrass, Minn.
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