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NEWS: Nov. 22, 2016 Public Workforce | The Nation Trump, Congress Drawing Up Blueprint to Reduce Feds' Job Protections, Benefits President-elect Donald Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress are drawing up plans to take on the bureaucracy by eroding federal workers' job protections and benefits. Hiring freezes, an end to automatic raises, a green light to fire poor performers, a ban on union business on the government's time and less generous pensions form the contours of the emerging blueprint. >> Washington Post White House Freezes Hiring of Career Federal Execs The White House has issued a freeze on hiring new top career officials through the remainder of the Obama presidency, effective Dec. 7, saying the pause will better empower President-elect Donald Trump's appointees to influence their agencies upon taking office. >> Government Executive Troops Can Seek to Carry Concealed Handguns in U.S. Military recruiters and other U.S. military personnel can now request to carry concealed, privately owned handguns for protection at domestic facilities, according to a new Defense Department directive issued in response to a series of deadly shootings. >> Military Times Denver Sheriff Fined over Citizenship Requirement The Denver Sheriff Department, which made U.S. citizenship a job requirement for deputies during a hiring spree in 2015 and early 2016, will pay a $10,000 fine and sort through old applications to identify non-citizens who were eliminated from consideration. >> Denver Post
CalPERS Eyeing Substantial Hike for Governments' Contribution Rates With consultants predicting long-term declines in its investment earnings, the California Public Employees' Retirement System is considering substantially higher contribution rates for the state and for the thousands of local governments and school districts that rely on the giant pension fund to serve their retirees. Public workers also could get hit with higher contributions, although that would depend on contract negotiations. >> Sacramento Bee New Jersey Bill Requires Quarterly Payments into Pension New Jersey lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to send Gov. Chris Christie a bill that will require the state to make quarterly payments to the state's ailing public-worker pension system. The measure is a reworked version of similar legislation Christie twice vetoed. >> NJ.com
To Lead D.C. Schools, Mayor Taps Oakland's Superintendent Mayor Muriel E. Bowser is expected to name Antwan Wilson, the superintendent of schools in Oakland, Calif., as her nominee to lead the District's school system, betting that an outsider with fresh eyes will bring new ideas for addressing achievement gaps. During Wilson's two and a half years in Oakland, graduation rates have risen and suspension rates have fallen. >> Washington Post U.S. Education Secretary: End Corporal Punishment U.S. Education Secretary John King is urging school districts nationwide to stop hitting and paddling students, saying corporal punishment is "harmful, ineffective, and often disproportionately applied to students of color and students with disabilities." >> USA Today
University of Cincinnati Leader Named Chancellor at University of Tennessee For the first time in its history, the University of Tennessee has selected a woman to lead its flagship campus in Knoxville. With a base salary of $585.000, Beverly Davenport, currently the interim president at the University of Cincinnati, also will become the highest-paid chancellor in the school's history if her appointment is approved next month by the UT Board of Trustees. >> Knoxville News-Sentinel The Presidency | The Nation Trump Team Pledges Diverse Administration Though President-elect Donald Trump's first five picks for top jobs in his administration have all been white men, transition officials insisted that the team he ultimately puts together will represent a cross-section of America. Trump spokesman Jason Miller said the top rungs of the executive branch "will be very broad and diverse." >> Washington Post N.J. Governor Says He Won't Join New Administration New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who had left the door open for a Cabinet position, said he does not plan to accept a job in the Trump administration, declaring that "I'm serving the rest of my term." >> Politico New York Mayor Threatens Suit to Block Muslim Registry New York City would sue to stop the federal government if the Trump administration goes forward with a plan to require all Muslims to register in a database, Mayor Bill de Blasio said. >> New York Daily News
In Tight Race, Governor Alleges Massive Voter Fraud Gov. Pat McCrory, a Republican who signed a 2013 voter-ID law which a federal court rolled back, is claiming that massive voter fraud swung the election against him as his campaign continues to challenge Democratic state Attorney General Roy Cooper's lead of several thousand votes two weeks after Election Day. Cooper, meanwhile, has named the leaders of his transition team. >> Politico, Raleigh News & Observer Indiana Governor-Elect Brings Back Ex-Governor's Key Aide Indiana Gov.-elect Eric Holcomb announced that Earl Goode, a longtime chief of staff for former governor Mitch Daniels, will return to the role for Holcomb's administration. >> Indianapolis Star Colorado Measure to Remove Slavery Reference Defeated An archaic reference to slavery will remain in the Colorado state constitution after supporters of a ballot measure seeking to removed the language acknowledged that it had been narrowly defeated. >> Denver Post >> Follow GovManagement on Twitter >> Share this edition:
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“The Energy Commerce Department has arranged for free hugs from our therapy boa constrictor.” Part of a printout left on his students' desks by Terry McInturff, a professor in Texas Tech University's Energy Commerce Department, a message that McInturff described as a "tongue in cheek" effort to help his students at the Lubbock institution deal with "the wounds of those feeling grief and unbearable angst over the election, Kim's tragic Paris robbery, the heart-wrenching Brangelina break-up or other similar tragedy" >> KLBK-TV | More quotes DATAPOINT 9 Number of 49 counties that are home to public flagship universities that favored Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton in the presidential election, according to a Chronicle of Higher Education analysis of voting data finding that in the 49 counties Clinton defeated Trump, on average, by about 18 percentage points >> Chronicle of Higher Education | More data VIEWPOINT Higher Education | Howard Risher What Academia Could Do for Government There is a growing discussion of how schools of public administration are failing to provide the kind of research that public-sector practitioners need to help them deliver government services efficiently. Turning policy into effective practice presents many difficult challenges, so this is a dialogue that has long been needed. But for those looking for solutions, there is a worthy model elsewhere in academia: schools of business. >> Governing PLUS: Daniel Seymour on how higher education has lost control of its own narrative. >> Chronicle of Higher Education | More commentaries UPCOMING EVENTS
Urban Institute Webinar: "A Universal Child Allowance to Reduce Poverty and Improve Child Development" Today, noon ET, Washington, D.C. Government Technology Webinar: "Social Media Is a Record: How Juneau, Alaska, Protects Transparency with Automated Archiving" Today, 2 p.m. ET Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education Program for Senior Executives in National and International Security Nov. 27-Dec. 9, Cambridge, Mass. National Association of Attorneys General Fall Meeting Nov. 28-30, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Federal Computer Week Conference: "Federal IT After the Transition" Nov. 29, Washington, D.C. Jennifer Schaus & Associates, George Mason University Procurement Technical Assistance Center and Arlington Economic Development Seminar: "Doing Business With DoD and Intel Community" Nov. 28, 7 a.m.-12:30 p.m. ET, Arlington, Va. American Enterprise Institute Discussion: "Conversation with Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation CEO Sue Desmond-Hellmann" Nov. 29, 9:30-10:30 a.m. ET, Washington, D.C. Government Executive Digital Citizen Summit Nov. 30, 7:30-11 a.m., Washington, D.C. Brookings Institution and Johns Hopkins Center for Financial Economics Discussions: "Understanding Fedspeak" Nov. 30, 9:15 a.m.-12:45 p.m. ET, Washington, D.C. Heritage Foundation and Foreign Policy Initiative Book discussion: "Aid for Elites: Building Partner Nations and Ending Poverty Through Human Capital" Dec. 1, noon-1 p.m. ET, Washington, D.C. Governing California Leadership Forum Dec. 6, Sacramento, Calif. >> Full events listings |
