The Los Angeles public school system is backing off its plan to end so-called social promotion, whereby kids are sent to the next grade even though they are notqualifiedtobe there.
"With the way the market has gone recently, there's no shortage of people who are now saying that they're consultants -- and many of them are notqualifiedtobe consultants, " said Les Rubenovitch, president of Toronto-based Winning Edge Consultants Inc.
