evaluation
Determine your company's worth
Before you can sell your business, merge with or acquire another company, or take on investors, you need to know how much your business is worth. However, finding your company's value takes more than multiplying your current cash flow by a number of years and projecting that forward. Besides the many hard numbers you have to tally, things get really sticky when you measure intangibles such as intellectual property or the creativity of your staff. Full Article.
Sop Stories: Suggestions Pour In on How to Clean Up Gulf
Can "magic fairy dust" clean up the oil-slicked Gulf Coast? Ed Wieliczkiewicz is trying to find out. He's also checking out coffin-liners, perforated plastic sheets and a contraption that looks like a sand-roving shopping cart. Because of his long last name, he’s known as “Alphabet Ed," and is running a sort of test-kitchen operation out of a hotel conference center in Point Clear, Alabama, evaluating tens of thousands of citizen suggestions for cleaning up the Gulf of Mexico in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Full Article.
Teacher evaluation bill clears Senate
Gov. Bobby Jindal’s plan to overhaul the way public-school teachers are evaluated neared final approval when the bill passed the state Senate. The measure, House Bill 1033, is one of Jindal’s top two education priorities of the session. Backers are also accelerating action on the measure in hopes that it can be attached to Louisiana’s second bid for federal “Race To The Top” dollars. Full Article.
Teachers Must Prove Their Worth in Race to the Top
Education officials have praised Louisiana's Race to the Top application for the preciseness of its goals. Teachers will be evaluated partly on their students' test score growth, and principals will be judged on how many successful teachers they hire. Schools of education could be financially rewarded — or closed — depending on the performance of their graduates. Full Article.
