{"data":{"id":14255,"title":"New United: School Scandal","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/comm-link\/spectrum-dispatch\/14255-New-United-School-Scandal","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-links\/14255","api_public_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/comm-links\/14255","channel":"Undefined","category":"Undefined","series":"News Update","images":[{"id":2525,"name":"NUSchoolScandalFI1.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/media\/us4ejzapf8zrlr\/source\/NUSchoolScandalFI1.jpg","alt":"","size":644618,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2014-10-28T21:46:31+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/2525","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/2525\/similar"},{"id":26463,"name":"source.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/media.robertsspaceindustries.com\/weozjmuuh3hwh\/source.jpg","alt":"","size":843046,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2019-09-19T15:49:32+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/26463","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/26463\/similar"},{"id":27892,"name":"source.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/media.robertsspaceindustries.com\/w3o9r4zgppm77\/source.jpg","alt":"","size":900916,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2021-09-06T14:48:40+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/27892","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/27892\/similar"}],"images_count":8,"translations":{"en_EN":"Schools Add Scandal to Curriculum\n\nBy. Benjamin Hecht\nStaff Writer\n\nThe education of our children has always been a paramount concern for the Empire. Schools are revered institutions; we entrust them with our greatest treasures in the hopes that they will be equipped with the intellectual and social training to become productive members of our society.\n\nSo when a school betrays that trust, the shock and anger feels that much deeper.\n\nBetween pulling shifts at the local Covalex shipping station and the occasional cargo run, Marcus Collier spends what little time remains in his day with his two daughters: Lorelai, 15, and Ishi, 9.\n\nIshi made spaceship sounds as she raced around the living room, guiding a small model ship through the air, while Lorelai attentively watched the wallscreen. Ishi dreams of being a racer while Lorelai aspires to be a scientist. This week anyway.\n\n\u201cShe seems to change her mind whenever she comes across a new show or text,\u201d Marcus said from the kitchen of the family\u2019s small two-bedroom flat located in the outskirts of New Junction on Lo. \u201cLast year it was a doctor. That was all she\u2019d talk about, all she\u2019d read. Before that it was an engineer, then an architect.\u201d\n\nThere is one thread that ran through all of Lorelai\u2019s careers: learning. She loves it.\n\n\u201cI remember talking to other parents right before Lorelai started school, they kept warning me about how rough those early days of school were, but she took to it instantly.\u201d\n\nTalking to several of Lorelai\u2019s teachers, she was not only enthusiastic, but gifted too.\n\n\u201cShe definitely didn\u2019t get it from me,\u201d Marcus said with a slight chuckle. He watched her in silence for a few moments as she flipped between several shows on the spectrum before settling on a news program, he continued; \u201cyeah, I was terrible at school.\u201d\n\nLorelai had taken her Equivalency earlier in the year. She counted the days until the results arrived, hoping that it could lead to scholarship opportunities to Rhetor and finally unlock her dream career, whatever that may be.\n\n\u201cI knew she was going to be bouncing off the walls until she found out how she did, so I reached out to a friend who worked at the school.\u201d\n\nHis contact was able to take a quick look at the results shortly before the Equivalency scores were released. Lorelai had scored in the top two percent of the district.\n\n\u201cLike I said, I knew she was smart, but \u2026 I\u2019ll be honest, it floored me. Knowing that with scores like that, she\u2019d be able to get to the top schools and be as incredible as I know she can be. It was really something.\u201d\n\nSo imagine Marcus\u2019 surprise when the school released the results three days later and he found out that Lorelai\u2019s test scores were deemed inconclusive due to data corruption.\n\n\u201cIt seemed like a nightmare. I talked to my friend who had no idea what happened. Talking to the Administrators at her school was no better. They just kept saying that random data corruption was rare, but did happen. Period. I mean, what am I supposed to do with that?\u201d\n\nMarcus refused to accept the official line and began his own investigation into Lorelai\u2019s school. It would take over six months of digging and questioning until he uncovered a shocking connection.\n\nThe dismissal of Arthur Bennio, a mid-level official at the Imperial Department of Education, on alleged corruption charges turned out to be the key to his investigation. Marcus was able to establish a direct connection between Bennio and Keena Astrid, the Head Administrator at Lorelai\u2019s school.\n\nFinally, Marcus took the shocking evidence to a childhood friend, Officer Robert Coresa of the New Junction Police Department who began to dig deeper.\n\nThe official investigation uncovered a ring of alleged Equivalency-fixing, claiming that Astrid and other local Administrators would strategically corrupt high-scoring students in their districts in order to drive down the average test score in an effort to qualify for Educational Equivalency Imperial Funding grants, intended to provide financial aid to areas where educational scores are lacking.\n\n\u201cI don\u2019t understand why they would jeopardize a child\u2019s future in order to get money,\u201d Marcus said, distant and still haunted. \u201cI just \u2026 I don\u2019t know.\u201d\n\nSo what are we, as a society, left with? An Imperial program that benefits suffering school systems sounds like a wonderful idea aimed at strengthening our weakest link, but if that system is being exploited to subsidize a school district that doesn\u2019t need the credits, should we amend the system to reward academic excellence? Or is that creating opportunities for a different type of exploitation?\n\nComplicated questions with even more complicated answers. Despite efforts to recover the data, Lorelai\u2019s Equivalency results were still lost, forcing her to retake the test.\n\nThey are still awaiting the results.\n\nIn the meantime, Lorelai revealed to her father that she\u2019s now interested in politics.","de_DE":"Schulen bringen Skandal in den Lehrplan\n\nBy. Benjamin Hecht\nPersonalverfasser\n\nDie Ausbildung unserer Kinder war schon immer ein wichtiges Anliegen f\u00fcr das Imperium. Schulen sind verehrte Institutionen; wir vertrauen ihnen unsere gr\u00f6\u00dften Sch\u00e4tze an in der Hoffnung, dass sie mit der intellektuellen und sozialen Ausbildung ausgestattet werden, um produktive Mitglieder unserer Gesellschaft zu werden.\n\nWenn also eine Schule dieses Vertrauen verr\u00e4t, f\u00fchlt sich der Schock und die Wut so viel tiefer an.\n\nZwischen den Schichten in der \u00f6rtlichen Spedition Covalex und dem gelegentlichen Frachtflug verbringt Marcus Collier mit seinen beiden T\u00f6chtern etwas Zeit in seinem Leben: Lorelai, 15, und Ishi, 9.\n\nIshi machte Raumschiffger\u00e4usche, als sie durch das Wohnzimmer raste und ein kleines Modellschiff durch die Luft f\u00fchrte, w\u00e4hrend Lorelai aufmerksam den Wandschirm beobachtete. Ishi tr\u00e4umt davon, ein Rennfahrer zu sein, w\u00e4hrend Lorelai danach strebt, ein Wissenschaftler zu werden. Jedenfalls diese Woche.\n\n\"Sie scheint ihre Meinung zu \u00e4ndern, wenn sie auf eine neue Show oder einen neuen Text st\u00f6\u00dft\", sagte Marcus aus der K\u00fcche der kleinen Zweizimmerwohnung der Familie am Rande von New Junction on Lo. \"Letztes Jahr war es ein Arzt. Das war alles, wor\u00fcber sie sprach, was sie las. Davor war es ein Ingenieur, dann ein Architekt.\"\n\nEs gibt einen roten Faden, der sich durch alle Karrieren Lorelais zog: das Lernen. Sie liebt es.\n\n\"Ich erinnere mich, dass sie mit anderen Eltern gesprochen haben, kurz bevor Lorelai mit der Schule angefangen hat, sie haben mich immer wieder gewarnt, wie hart diese fr\u00fchen Schultage waren, aber sie hat es sofort angenommen.\"\n\nIm Gespr\u00e4ch mit einigen von Lorelais Lehrern war sie nicht nur begeistert, sondern auch begabt.\n\n\"Sie hat es definitiv nicht von mir bekommen\", sagte Marcus mit einem leichten L\u00e4cheln. Er beobachtete sie ein paar Augenblicke lang schweigend, als sie zwischen mehreren Sendungen auf dem Spektrum hin- und herwechseln konnte, bevor er sich in einer Nachrichtensendung niederlie\u00df, fuhr er fort: \"Ja, ich war schrecklich in der Schule.\"\n\nLorelai hatte ihre \u00c4quivalenz Anfang des Jahres \u00fcbernommen. Sie z\u00e4hlte die Tage bis zum Eintreffen der Ergebnisse und hoffte, dass es zu Stipendienm\u00f6glichkeiten f\u00fcr Rhetor und schlie\u00dflich zur Freischaltung ihrer Traumkarriere f\u00fchren k\u00f6nnte, was auch immer das sein mag.\n\n\"Ich wusste, dass sie von den W\u00e4nden abprallen w\u00fcrde, bis sie herausfand, wie es ihr ging, also habe ich mich an einen Freund gewandt, der in der Schule arbeitete.\"\n\nSein Kontakt konnte kurz vor der Ver\u00f6ffentlichung der \u00c4quivalenznoten einen kurzen Blick auf die Ergebnisse werfen. Lorelai hatte unter den ersten zwei Prozent des Bezirks punkten k\u00f6nnen.\n\n\"Wie gesagt, ich wusste, dass sie klug ist, aber... ich will ehrlich sein, es hat mich geschlagen. Zu wissen, dass sie mit solchen Noten in der Lage w\u00e4re, an die besten Schulen zu kommen und so unglaublich zu sein, wie ich wei\u00df, dass sie es sein kann. Es war wirklich etwas Besonderes.\"\n\nStellen Sie sich also Marcus' \u00dcberraschung vor, als die Schule die Ergebnisse drei Tage sp\u00e4ter ver\u00f6ffentlichte, und er fand heraus, dass Lorelais Testergebnisse aufgrund von Datenkorruption als nicht schl\u00fcssig galten.\n\n\"Es schien ein Albtraum zu sein. Ich sprach mit meinem Freund, der keine Ahnung hatte, was passiert war. Es war nicht besser, mit den Administratoren an ihrer Schule zu sprechen. Sie sagten einfach immer wieder, dass zuf\u00e4llige Datenverluste selten sind, aber es ist passiert. Punkt. Ich meine, was soll ich damit machen?\"\n\nMarcus weigerte sich, die offizielle Linie zu akzeptieren und begann seine eigene Untersuchung der Schule Lorelais. Es w\u00fcrde \u00fcber sechs Monate des Grabens und Verh\u00f6rs dauern, bis er eine schockierende Verbindung aufdeckte.\n\nDie Entlassung von Arthur Bennio, einem Beamten mittlerer Ebene im kaiserlichen Bildungsministerium, wegen angeblicher Korruptionsvorw\u00fcrfe erwies sich als der Schl\u00fcssel zu seiner Untersuchung. Marcus konnte eine direkte Verbindung zwischen Bennio und Keena Astrid, der Leiterin der Lorelaischule, herstellen.\n\nSchlie\u00dflich brachte Marcus die schockierenden Beweise zu einem Freund aus der Kindheit, Officer Robert Coresa von der New Junction Police Department, der anfing, tiefer zu graben.\n\nDie offizielle Untersuchung ergab einen Ring von angeblichen \u00c4quivalenzfixierungen, in dem behauptet wurde, dass Astrid und andere lokale Administratoren strategisch hoch bewertete Sch\u00fcler in ihren Bezirken korrumpieren w\u00fcrden, um die durchschnittliche Testpunktzahl zu senken, um sich f\u00fcr die Gew\u00e4hrung von Imperial Funding Grants f\u00fcr Bildungs\u00e4quivalenz zu qualifizieren, die dazu bestimmt sind, finanzielle Hilfe f\u00fcr Gebiete zu leisten, in denen Bildungsergebnisse fehlen.\n\n\"Ich verstehe nicht, warum sie die Zukunft eines Kindes gef\u00e4hrden w\u00fcrden, um Geld zu bekommen\", sagte Marcus, distanziert und immer noch verfolgt. \"Ich wei\u00df es einfach nicht.\"\n\nWomit sind wir als Gesellschaft also noch \u00fcbrig? Ein imperiales Programm, das leidenden Schulsystemen zugute kommt, klingt nach einer wunderbaren Idee, die darauf abzielt, unser schw\u00e4chstes Glied zu st\u00e4rken, aber wenn dieses System ausgenutzt wird, um einen Schulbezirk zu subventionieren, der die Kredite nicht ben\u00f6tigt, sollten wir dann das System \u00e4ndern, um akademische Exzellenz zu belohnen? Oder schafft das M\u00f6glichkeiten f\u00fcr eine andere Art der Nutzung?\n\nKomplizierte Fragen mit noch komplizierteren Antworten. Trotz der Bem\u00fchungen, die Daten wiederherzustellen, gingen Lorelais \u00c4quivalenzergebnisse immer noch verloren, was sie zwang, den Test erneut zu machen.\n\nSie warten noch auf die Ergebnisse.\n\nIn der Zwischenzeit offenbarte Lorelai ihrem Vater, dass sie sich nun f\u00fcr Politik interessiert.","zh_CN":"Schools Add Scandal to Curriculum\n\nBy. Benjamin Hecht\nStaff Writer\n\nThe education of our children has always been a paramount concern for the Empire. Schools are revered institutions; we entrust them with our greatest treasures in the hopes that they will be equipped with the intellectual and social training to become productive members of our society.\n\nSo when a school betrays that trust, the shock and anger feels that much deeper.\n\nBetween pulling shifts at the local Covalex shipping station and the occasional cargo run, Marcus Collier spends what little time remains in his day with his two daughters: Lorelai, 15, and Ishi, 9.\n\nIshi made spaceship sounds as she raced around the living room, guiding a small model ship through the air, while Lorelai attentively watched the wallscreen. Ishi dreams of being a racer while Lorelai aspires to be a scientist. This week anyway.\n\n\u201cShe seems to change her mind whenever she comes across a new show or text,\u201d Marcus said from the kitchen of the family\u2019s small two-bedroom flat located in the outskirts of New Junction on Lo. \u201cLast year it was a doctor. That was all she\u2019d talk about, all she\u2019d read. Before that it was an engineer, then an architect.\u201d\n\nThere is one thread that ran through all of Lorelai\u2019s careers: learning. She loves it.\n\n\u201cI remember talking to other parents right before Lorelai started school, they kept warning me about how rough those early days of school were, but she took to it instantly.\u201d\n\nTalking to several of Lorelai\u2019s teachers, she was not only enthusiastic, but gifted too.\n\n\u201cShe definitely didn\u2019t get it from me,\u201d Marcus said with a slight chuckle. He watched her in silence for a few moments as she flipped between several shows on the spectrum before settling on a news program, he continued; \u201cyeah, I was terrible at school.\u201d\n\nLorelai had taken her Equivalency earlier in the year. She counted the days until the results arrived, hoping that it could lead to scholarship opportunities to Rhetor and finally unlock her dream career, whatever that may be.\n\n\u201cI knew she was going to be bouncing off the walls until she found out how she did, so I reached out to a friend who worked at the school.\u201d\n\nHis contact was able to take a quick look at the results shortly before the Equivalency scores were released. Lorelai had scored in the top two percent of the district.\n\n\u201cLike I said, I knew she was smart, but \u2026 I\u2019ll be honest, it floored me. Knowing that with scores like that, she\u2019d be able to get to the top schools and be as incredible as I know she can be. It was really something.\u201d\n\nSo imagine Marcus\u2019 surprise when the school released the results three days later and he found out that Lorelai\u2019s test scores were deemed inconclusive due to data corruption.\n\n\u201cIt seemed like a nightmare. I talked to my friend who had no idea what happened. Talking to the Administrators at her school was no better. They just kept saying that random data corruption was rare, but did happen. Period. I mean, what am I supposed to do with that?\u201d\n\nMarcus refused to accept the official line and began his own investigation into Lorelai\u2019s school. It would take over six months of digging and questioning until he uncovered a shocking connection.\n\nThe dismissal of Arthur Bennio, a mid-level official at the Imperial Department of Education, on alleged corruption charges turned out to be the key to his investigation. Marcus was able to establish a direct connection between Bennio and Keena Astrid, the Head Administrator at Lorelai\u2019s school.\n\nFinally, Marcus took the shocking evidence to a childhood friend, Officer Robert Coresa of the New Junction Police Department who began to dig deeper.\n\nThe official investigation uncovered a ring of alleged Equivalency-fixing, claiming that Astrid and other local Administrators would strategically corrupt high-scoring students in their districts in order to drive down the average test score in an effort to qualify for Educational Equivalency Imperial Funding grants, intended to provide financial aid to areas where educational scores are lacking.\n\n\u201cI don\u2019t understand why they would jeopardize a child\u2019s future in order to get money,\u201d Marcus said, distant and still haunted. \u201cI just \u2026 I don\u2019t know.\u201d\n\nSo what are we, as a society, left with? An Imperial program that benefits suffering school systems sounds like a wonderful idea aimed at strengthening our weakest link, but if that system is being exploited to subsidize a school district that doesn\u2019t need the credits, should we amend the system to reward academic excellence? Or is that creating opportunities for a different type of exploitation?\n\nComplicated questions with even more complicated answers. Despite efforts to recover the data, Lorelai\u2019s Equivalency results were still lost, forcing her to retake the test.\n\nThey are still awaiting the results.\n\nIn the meantime, Lorelai revealed to her father that she\u2019s now interested in politics."},"links_count":0,"comment_count":94,"created_at":"2014-10-29T00:00:00+00:00","created_at_human":"11 years ago"},"meta":{"processed_at":"2026-05-11 00:21:46","valid_relations":["images","links"],"prev_id":14254,"next_id":14257}}