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Sponsor Licence (How to Apply!)
Jemima Johnstone
Last updated: 7th January 2020
With domestic skills shortages across the UK economy, employers in Britain are looking to the global talent market to meet their recruitment needs. But to employ skilled non-EEA workers, UK employers first have to apply for sponsor licence. A refusal rate of 15%, however, suggests employers are struggling to get the application process right.
This article covers:
What is a sponsor licence?
Before applying for a sponsor licence
Appointing key personnel
Compile your application & supporting documentation
Prepare for a UKVI inspection
Sponsor licence management
Resident labour market test
A sponsor licence is the permission granted by the Home Office to an employer to hire skilled nationals from non-EEA countries under the Tier 2 visa route. Employers must make an application to UKVI to evidence their eligibility and that they meet the strict requirements on sponsors.
The application process requires applicants to demonstrate that:
You are a genuine organisation operating lawfully in the UK.
You have effective HR and recruitment systems and practices in place.
You are offering genuine employment that meets the Tier 2 skill level and appropriate rates of pay.
Your appointed key personnel, as identified in your application, are honest, dependable and reliable.
There are also rising costs associated with this visa which employers need to have a full grasp of.
If you are considering applying for a sponsor licence, you want to improve the prospects of the Home Office approving your application. Answering the following questions will help you to build a compelling submission that is compliant with the requirements on sponsor licence holders.
When you apply for a sponsor licence you will need to specify the types of workers you are looking to recruit:
Tier 2 workers: Skilled workers with long-term job offers.
Tier 5 workers: Skilled temporary workers.
Since sponsor licences are granted for four years, it will require you to consider your current and longer-term recruitment needs when making your application what to ensure the licence provides sufficient cover for the duration of its validity.
You then need to consider how you will use the sponsor licence.
There are two options available – the unrestricted Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS) and the restricted CoS.
Unrestricted CoS are used for new employees with a salary of more than £159,600 or more switching within the UK to the Tier 2 (General) visa and extensions.
When you apply for your licence you will be asked to estimate how many Tier 2 certificates you will require. You will then be granted fixed allocations of unrestricted CoS on a yearly basis as part of your sponsor licence.
You must issue the unrestricted CoS to the overseas worker within three months of allocation and within six months of first advertising the vacancy.
Individuals must then apply to UKVI for Tier 2 clearance within three months of receiving the CoS.
Restricted CoS are intended for new employees applying from outside the UK to enter under a Tier 2 (General) visa and who will be earning under £159,600 per annum, and individual dependants of Tier 4 students applying from the UK wishing to switch to a Tier 2 (General) visa.
There is an annual restriction in place on the number of migrant workers admitted to the UK from outside the EU under a Tier 2 (General) visa on restricted CoS.
UKVI review all applications for restricted CoS on a monthly basis. Those requests which meet the points criteria (minimum 32 points) are approved. If the restrictive allocation limit is oversubscribed, applications are prioritised according to a points table.
The available restricted CoS are allocated based on the highest points scored. Points are awarded based on whether the job is in a shortage occupation, a PhD-level occupation, and the salary on offer.
There are no guarantees if and when restricted CoS applications will be approved.
If a CoS is granted, the employer assigns the CoS to the individual, who can then use the reference number to apply to the Home Office for entry permission.
Any restricted CoS unallocated after three months will be automatically returned to UKVI for reallocation.
As a sponsor licence holder, you are required to nominate individuals within your organisation to carry out particular administrative functions – so-called 'key personnel':
Authorising Officer
Once you have been granted a licence you can also choose to nominate individuals as Level 2 users.
When applying for a sponsor licence, it is important to understand the purpose of each of these roles and who you can – and critically cannot – appoint. Those nominated and identified within the application will be subject to a background check by UKVI.
You must also ensure there is an appointed Authorising Officer and at least one Level 1 user in place at all times. If the appointed personnel leave the organisation and there is a failure to appoint someone else to the role, UKVI has powers to downgrade your licence and charge for the opportunity to upgrade it again, or even revoke your licence altogether.
To apply for a sponsor licence you must write and submit an online application. Preparation is essential.
In support of your online application, you must collate and submit supporting documentation to meet the necessary evidentiary requirements. The documents you will need to provide, as a minimum, to prove your eligibility are detailed in the Home Office's Appendix A. While some documents will be mandatory, in most cases we recommend providing further documents to evidence comprehensively that the organisation meets all of the requirements under the sponsor licence.
The relevant supporting documents must be supplied within five days of the initial application. Failure to submit all required documents will result in your application being delayed or rejected, and further costs being incurred. As such, it will be important to have prepared all of the necessary evidence and documentation by the time you make your application online.
Following receipt of your application, you may be subject to a compliance visit from UK Visas and Immigration. The purpose of a Home Office inspection is to ascertain whether you have adequate HR systems in place to meet the sponsor licence requirements and to assess whether or not to grant the licence.
An audit of your HR operations will be key in preparing for a site visit, to identify process weakness or omissions that could impact your licence application.
Applying for a sponsor licence is only the first hurdle for employers in accessing the global talent market. If you are successful in your application, there is no room for complacency as your HR processes must kick-in and support ongoing compliance with your duties as sponsor licence holder.
UK immigration rules are also subject to constant change and revision, making it critical that sponsor licence holders stay up-to-date and compliant with their duties.
Sponsor licence holders are required to meet a number of compliance duties for the duration of their licence. These duties require internal HR processes, policies and procedures to meet the required standards in the following areas:
Keeping up-to-date records of all foreign workers
Tracking and recording employee attendance
Reporting certain employee activities, such as non-attendance or non-compliance
Cooperating with the Home Office, such as during site visits
Complying with the law, such as carrying out right to work checks on employees to ensure that they are entitled to be in the UK and undertake the work in question.
Some duties appear more widely understood than others. The duty to notify a change in circumstances is, for example, often overlooked in practice, particularly where wider organisational concerns demand attention and focus, such as a merger or acquisition or other organisational change.
Another common area of compliance risk is lack knowledge of personnel involved in the sponsor licence, across the recruitment, onboarding and staff management stages. Training is likely to be required to ensure relevant knowledge and internal capability internally across HR, line managers and site managers.
Penalties for failing to comply with sponsor licence duties are designed to impact operations to deter employers from falling short in their obligations. Failure to comply with your licence compliance duties can result in a downgrade in user rating, a licence suspension or revocation – putting the jobs of existing migrants at risk and impacting your organisation's operations.
Ongoing compliance management will also pay dividends when it comes to renewing the licence – which is typically more of a complex process than the initial application. All too often we see at the sponsor licence renewal stage after four years that processes have slackened, creating business-critical risk of licence refusal where UKVI see serious errors or breaches in compliance.
In addition to the new administrative burdens of the sponsor licence, you will also continue to be required to meet your illegal working duties under the Right to Work regime. The requirements state that all employees are required to provide documentation that proves their right to work before being employed by a UK company and copies of this information must also be retained by the employer.
Once you are granted a sponsor licence, you must evidence that the domestic labour market has not been able to fulfil the position before you recruit from overseas, by using the Resident Labour Market Test (RLMT).
Understanding your duties under the RLMT is important, and specifically what this means for how you advertise for jobs and how you keep records to evidence compliance with the RLMT.
There are exceptions. In recognition of shortages in a number of areas, roles which feature on the Shortage Occupation List (SOL) are exempt from the RLMT. In cases of SOL positions, employers may issue a Tier 2 CoS to a non-European worker without the need to demonstrate that a resident labour market test (RLMT) has been carried out.
Need help applying for a sponsor licence?
UK immigration rules are demanding on employers who want to bring talent to the UK, and through increasingly protectionist immigration policies, designed to favour UK-resident labour, the rules have become more onerous (and costly) for employers.
DavidsonMorris can provide clients with a complete employer sponsorship licence application service, with our team of UK immigration specialists highly experienced in all the documentary and evidentiary requirements vital to a prompt and stress-free process when applying for a sponsor licence.
It may also be that a sponsor licence is not the best option for your business and its needs. We can advise on the most suitable entry routes for your specific requirements.
For guidance on applying for a sponsor licence, contact us.
Sponsor licence FAQs
How do I become a sponsor for immigration?
To sponsor a non-EEA national with qualifying skills in a qualifying role, an organisation must first apply to the Home Office for a sponsor licence. Sponsor licence holders must evidence in their application that the role being recruited for meets the requirements and that the organisation understands and has the capability to meet specific ongoing compliance duties.
How long is the sponsor licence processing time?
Sponsor licence application processing can take between 2-3 months, provided there are no issues or delays with your application. Time should also be factored in to build the application, compile the supporting documents and ensure the organisation is geared to meet the compliance duties.
What are the sponsor licence application fees?
To apply for a sponsor licence, the organisation will have to pay the relevant fee. For small companies and charitable organisations, the fee is £536. The fee is £1476 for medium and large employers.
What is a certificate of sponsorship?
The CoS is a self-certifying document that a sponsor licence holder issues to a Tier 2 visa applicant to onboard them into the organisation. It is used to confirm to the Home Office that the role you are recruiting for meets all of the relevant requirements under the visa classification.
How can DavidsonMorris help?
DavidsonMorris are specialists in UK immigration, working with UK employers to support with their immigration needs in areas such as sponsor licence applications and ongoing licence compliance. We can guide you through the Home Office application process, advising on the application itself as well as auditing your internal HR systems and policies against the required standards and helping with preparation for a site visit. Once issued, we can also support with operating and managing the licence from assigning certificates of sponsorship to advising on ongoing compliance.
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George Rickey: Kinetic Sculpture, A Retrospective
By: Gedeon, Lucinda; Valerie Fletcher; Philip Rickey
Publisher: Vero Beach, FL, Vero Beach Museum of Art: 2007
Hardcover with dust jacket, black cloth with silver spine titles, 26 by 28.5 cm, 132 pp., well-illustrated in full color. Near fine hardcover in a very good jacket with light wear. Laid in is a George Rickey exhibition brochure from Frederick Meijer Gardens in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the first stop on this retrospective's tour. "This monograph covers a 50-year period in the life and work of American sculptor, George Rickey. It is intended to present the depth and breadth of his sculptural oeuvre between the early 1950s and his death in 2002 at the age of 95. Featured are 52 indoor and... View more info
Press Photo of Bob Colacello with Andy Warhol Portrait
By: George Chinsee
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Life with Picasso [Signed by Gilot]
By: Gilot, Françoise; Carlton Lake
Publisher: New York/London/Toronto, McGraw-Hill, Inc.: 1964
Hardcover with dust jacket, brown cloth over black cloth spine with white spine titles, 16 by 23.3 cm, 341 [1] pp. plus a 31-page center-section of photos. Hardcover is very good with some tiny smudges on the fore-edge of the textblock and a some faint drip marks on the top edge (see image). The jacket is very good with some light yellowing, a 2 cm tear on the bottom edge of the front panel, and a small damp stain on the top edge of the rear panel. Boldly signed by Gilot on the ffep. From the front flap: "Gilot describes the exuberant, if exhausting, world she and Picasso new together—a... View more info
The Spirit of Folk Art: The Girard Collection at the Museum of International Folk Art
By: Glassie, Henry
Publisher: New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. in association with the Museum of Santa Fe, New Mexico: 1989
Hardcover with dust jacket, orange cloth with silver spine titles and silver and black cover decoration, 25.5 by 26.5 cm, 276 pp., heavily illus. Near fine hardcover in very good jacket with only faint shelf wear. From the publisher: "The Girard Collection at Santa Fe's Museum of International Art encompasses more than 100,000 works from 100 cultures worldwide. Here, folklorist Henry Glassie has selected 300 objects from the collection to illustrate a wide-ranging study of folk art. The pieces depicted - ceramic figures, beaded purses, intricate textiles, dolls and toys - combine beauty wi... View more info
Robert Kipniss: Intaglios 1982-2004, Catalogue Raisonné with Robert Kipniss: Paintings 1950-2005 [Two Volumes]
By: Grace, Trudie; Thomas Piché Jr.; E. John Bullard; Richard J. Boyle
Publisher: Manchester, VT, Hudson Hills Press: 2004, 2007
Edition: First Editions
Hardcovers with dust jacket, green cloth with silver spine titles, 23.5 by 31.5 cm, 183; xi 148 pp., heavily illus. Both hardcovers are fine; both jackets would be near fine but for some sun fading on the spine panels. These books represent a catalogue raisonné, illustrating and annotating all of Kipniss' mezzotints and drypoints from 1982 through 2004, and an overview of Kipniss's long career as a painter. View more info
Odon: Sourcier, Sorcier, Magicien [Mystical Weaver]
By: Gradenigo, Gourcuff; Lorsqu'Odon
Publisher: Paris, Gourcuff Gradenigo: 2010
Hardcover with dust jacket, 25 by 30.5 cm, 304 pp., illus. New, sealed in the publisher's shrinkwrap. Text is in French. Oversized book that will require additional postage is mailing overseas. "Lorsqu'Odon – the mystical weaver – braids his works. He uses nets that trap the eyes. In his workshop, he chose a school of slowness, refusing to hurry. It offers happy mazes; imaginary pilgrimages. It creates a meditation on the finite and the infinite, the origin of continuity. He invents 'mandalas' that highlight the world order' objects of thought, prayer, and dreams. With the ... View more info
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Hardcover, glossy illustrated boards, 21.5 by 28.5 cm,256 pp., heavily illus. As new, still sealed in the publisher's shrink wrap. From the publisher: "Like the European Romantics, Fluxus artists were intent on changing society through reverie and imagination. This [exhibition catalog] examines the connection between Fluxus artists such as George Maciunas, Geoffrey Hendricks, Al Hansen, and Ben Patterson, and Romantics such as Caspar David Friedrich and Ludwig Tiek." View more info
Wassily Kandinsky: Life and Work
By: Grohmann, Will; Milton S. Fox, editor; Norbert Guterman, trans.
Publisher: New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc.: nd
Not dated (last date listed for Matisse exhibitions in 1957/8). Hardcover with dust jacket, yellow cloth with black spine titles and cover decorations, 21.5 by 30.2 cm, 428 pp., 920 illus., of which 41 are full-color tipped-in plates. Very good with only faint signs of shelf wear and light yellowing to the leaves and edges of the textblock; the jacket is near fine. From the jacket: "This book traces Kandinsky's life from his early preparation for a career in law, and tells us in detail about the shaping of this strange and fascinating personality […] Every one of his oil paintings is repr... View more info
Artist Robert Hagen's Images of Australia
By: Hagen, Robert
Publisher: Hagen, Robert, International Art Services Ltd.: 1994
Edition: no edition stated
Hardcover with dust jacket, glossy illustrated boards, 22.3 by 29 cm, 94 pp., heavily illus. in full color. Very good in very good jacket with light edge wear. Robert Hagan (1947 – ) is an Australian television personality, author, impressionist artist, and host of the Discovery show Splash of Color. In this book, Hagan "presents a fascinating picture of Australia in all her beauty and variety by recording over forty truly Australian scenes, coast to coast, including Billinudgel, Boohnah Farmhouse, the Lavender Bay Bridge, Cunnamulla Sheep Dogs, Murray Bridge Angling Club, and many more... View more info
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By: Hardy, Ed; Joel Selvin
Publisher: New York, Thomas Dunne Books (St. Martin's Press): 2013
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Hardcover with dust jacket, black cloth with red spine titles, 16 by 24.1 cm, illus. endpapers, 293 pp. plus 16-pages of color and black and white photos. Near fine with only faint signs of shelf wear – appears unread. Signed by Hardy on the half-title page, and dated in the year of publication. While he may be best known today for his eponymous line of T-shirts, cigarette lighters, shot glasses, and anything else that could be emblazoned with his designs—a merchandising ploy that he had little control over—Hardy is one of the great American tattoo artists and proponent of traditional... View more info
Deep Blues: Bill Traylor 1854-1949
By: Helfenstein, Josef; Roman Kurzmeyer
Publisher: New Haven, CT, Yale University Press: 1999
Wraps, 21 by 26.5 cm, 192 pp., illus. New, still sealed in the publisher's shrink wrap. From the publisher: "Bill Traylor has become an almost mythical figure in the history of American folk art. Born into slavery in 1854, he only began to draw at the age of 82 in 1939, when he moved from the plantation where he was born to Montgomery, Alabama. From his observations on Montgomery's Monroe Avenue and his memories of his life on the plantation, he created his own original pictorial world. This book presents not only Traylor's compellingly native drawings but also fascinating documentary ph... View more info
Graphic: Inside the Sketchbooks of the World's Great Graphic Designers
By: Heller, Steven; Lita Talarico
Publisher: New York, The Monacelli Press: 2010
Edition: first American edition
Softcover, 22 by 29.7 cm, 351 pp., heavily illus. Very good, unread copy with only a faint crease on the back cover. From the publisher: "We are constantly surrounded by design—in advertisements, in books and magazines, on the Internet, on television—and each graphic element we see was carefully constructed through a designer's very personal process. Yet only the finished article is presented. Rarely do we gain insight into how visual solutions have been reached or the exploration, experimentation, and ideas behind them. In this ambitious publication, some one hundred of the world'... View more info
O que é Fluxus? O que não é! O porquê / What's Fluxus? What's Not! Why.
By: Hendricks, Jon, curator and editor
Publisher: Rio de Janeiro/Detroit, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil with The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection Foundation: 2002
Hardcover with dust jacket with printed card slipcase, black cloth with white spine and cover titles, 25 by 31.5 cm, 272 pp., illus. with black and white images and color plates. Fine in fine jacket; slipcase has light soiling, wear and corner bumping. "This book ruminates on the definition of Fluxus through scholarly treatises by René Block and Tobias Berger, Ina Blom, Thomas Kellein, Joan Rothfuss, and Harry Ruhé; interviews with George Maciunas; and reproductions of seminal texts by Fluxus artists, including, in order of appearance, La Monte Young, George Brecht, Yoko Ono, George Maci... View more info
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By: Horsfield, Kate; Lucas Hilderbrand, eds.
Publisher: Philadelphia, Temple University Press: 2006
Hardcover with dust jacket, black buckram with gilt spine titles, 22 by 28.4 cm, 250 pp., illus. While we rarely sell ex-library copies, this copy is in such good condition we have made an exception. The book appears unread and would be fine aside from the stamps and labels on the front free endpaper and the single stamp on the bottom edge of the title page (see images); the jacket is very good with no labels or other marks. An important resource on video art. From the publisher: "Founded in 1976 at the inception of the media arts movement, the Video Data Bank is the leading resource in ... View more info
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By: Horstmann, Gerrit G.; Wim van der Beek; Bert Kiewiet
Publisher: Amsterdam/Groningen, REGIO-PRojekt Uitgevers: nd (c. 2000)
Hardcover with illustrated boards, 21 by 30.2 cm, 208 pp., heavily illus. in black and white. Text is in Dutch and English. Very good with only light yellowing around the edges of the leaves. Inscribed and signed by Kiewiet on the ffep, dated 2000. Bert Kiewiet (1908-2008) was a well-known Dutch sculptor whose most famous works depict scenes of everyday Dutch life. This volume not only takes a short look at the artist's childhood and evolution as an artist, but it also presents an expansive view of his work, from his early experimentation with Surrealism and folk art, to the larger-than... View more info
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By: Hughes, Rian, ed.
Publisher: [Gloucestershire], Fiell Publishing Ltd.: 2010
Flexi-binding, 23 by 23 cm, 574 pp., heavily illus. Near fine with only light signs of shelf wear to the covers – appears unread. From the publisher, "a celebration of the beautiful and stylistically diverse hand-drawn lettering that was a unique feature of headline type before the advent of Letraset and the computer. Custom lettering gave designers' imaginations full rein to develop individualistic solutions unconstrained by typographic practicalities. This unique publication features over 4,500 examples of custom lettering - from craggy fonts that look like they're hewn from rock, to ... View more info
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By: Hultén, K.G. Pontus
Publisher: New York, The Museum of Modern Art: 1968
Lithographed, stamped and hinged metal boards, 21.5 by 24.4 cm, 216 [2] pp., illus. Very good with light scuffs and scratches to the metal covers, a few light dings to the back cover; the interior is lightly yellowed, and there is a small dampstain on the first leaf (see image). This volume, published as a companion to the MOMA exhibit of the same name, "is a collection of comments on technology by artists of the western world." It includes a wide variety of artist interpretations of machines and the movement they inspire, those with practical purpose as well as machines "regarded as ... View more info
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By: Hung, Nguyen Van; Philippe Hunt; Jaco Van Dormael, intro.
Publisher: Brussels, Foundation Van Hung:
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Hardcover, black cloth with red cover titles, dust jacket, 27 by 21.5 cm, 86 pp., illus. The hardcover is near fine with only faint signs of wear; the jacket is fair with edge wear and small tears, some creases, and a faint damp stain on the front panel that has not affected the book. A scarce hardcover copy of this collaboration between the artist Nguyen Van Hung and philologist and philosopher Philippe Hunt. Features full-color images of Hung's paintings and sculptures, and excepts from his sketchbooks, accompanied by text from Hunt. "Hung is mad. We've known this for a while. Hu... View more info
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Publisher: np, WAGTD/Inspire Good Publishing Co.: 2017
Orange cloth with white cover titles and decorations, 18 by 23.5 cm, [56] pp., illus. Near fine with a light bump at the foot of the spine. Produced by the Australian organization We're All Going to Die, "this 'children's book for adults' explores the role fear plays in our lives and how death can empower us to fear less and live more." The philosophy behind WAGTD is "to remind you to celebrate life through the lens of death. Why? Because it cuts out the bullshit and puts our everyday fears into perspective. How? Through art. We're All Going to Die is a creative community th... View more info
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By: Hunter, Sam; John Jacobus; Daniel Wheeler
Publisher: New York, Harry N. Abrams: 2000
Edition: third revised edition
Hardcover with dust jacket, blue cloth with gilt spine titles, 23 by 29.7 cm, 448 pp., 857 illus. incld. 468 plates in full-color. Fine, unread copy in near fine jacket with only light yellowing on the spine panel. From the publisher: "Almost a half century ago, the painter Willem de Kooning said: 'There's no way of looking at a work of art by itself; it's not self-evident—it needs a history, it needs a lot of talking about.' The great works of modern art get talked about in this highly literate narrative overview, which traces modernism's radical essence-from its origins in the late... View more info


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The Carvalho Show: The past and future of Miami-Dade Superintendent Alberto Carvalho
The charismatic leader of the nation's fourth-largest school district has a complicated legacy. He almost took over the Pinellas County School District in 2008.
Miami-Dade School Superintendent Alberto Carvalho, 55, is now in his 11th year leading the fourth largest school district in the nation. [ Miami Herald ]
Colleen WrightTimes staff
Published Oct. 14, 2019
It had the suspense of LeBron James' prime-time "Decision" and the drama of a telenovela.
The national media had a name for it: "The Carvalho Show."
On the first day of March 2018, the Miami-Dade County School Board hastily convened to learn the fate of its superintendent. Was Alberto Carvalho really leaving for New York City, where he had been offered the job of running the nation's largest school district?
Carvalho had his moment in the national spotlight, and he turned down the job on live television.
Of course he did. Could you imagine "The Carvalho Show" anywhere else?
Carvalho is a Miamian by choice. Not the kind that fled communist Cuba, but one that came from Portugal alone, at 17, without papers. This is where he ascended from teaching science in the urban core to leading the fourth largest school system in the nation.
Miami is where his speeches run during rush hour on public radio. Where strangers recognize his coiffed hair and impeccable suits from TV and tell him they love him — and he tells them he loves them, too. Where a congresswoman waits for him and not the other way around.
And yet, when the School Board met in August 2018 to discuss extending his contract, board members picked it apart. Why was it so hard to decide to keep one of the nation's top superintendents in his adopted home?
That's the thing about Carvalho: Even after everything he's done, 11 years later, people are still making up their minds about him.
For more than a decade, Carvalho's highs have been matched by his lows. His storybook rise to superintendent was marred by revelations of an alleged affair with a journalist. His career survived, and he went on to win a trove of awards, including National Superintendent of the Year. Months after that orchestrated will-he-or-won't-he reality show moment with New York, he helped convince Miami-Dade voters to pass, for the second time, a referendum to help the cash-strapped school system.
His record had made him one of the most visible and well-known leaders in South Florida. But Carvalho remains somewhat of an enigma. Even members of his inner circle have no idea how long he'll stay or what he'll do next.
September marked a decade and a year since Carvalho, who just turned 55, became superintendent of nearly 400 public schools in Miami-Dade County. That's a tenure more than three times longer than the average for a big city superintendent.
After School Board members debated extending his contract, the superintendent addressed the board. His brow furrowed, and his voice steadied. It wasn't personal, he said. Was it?
"I never thought that you would see that my staying longer would be a hindrance," he said.
The Miami Herald pored over School Board agendas, minutes and schedules and interviewed Carvalho and more than 30 people in his orbit, including current and former School Board members, colleagues, politicians and associates, to delve into how the most popular un-elected official in Miami came to be.
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A STORYBOOK RISE
Carvalho often says he sees himself in his students: An immigrant. An English language learner. Homeless. Alone.
At 17, he packed up what little he had and left his mother, father and five siblings behind in Lisbon. It was 1982. When New York City didn't work out, he thought of where he could go next. Scenes of balmy South Florida beaches on his black-and-white TV set stuck with him.
In Fort Lauderdale, he sold suits, took handyman jobs and worked as a chef and waiter to pay for classes at Broward Community College. He waited and bused tables at the restaurant of the late Congressman E. Clay Shaw, who hooked him up with a student visa and work permit. A $2,000 loan from a nun got him to graduation at Barry University. He picked up English and Spanish in addition to his native Portuguese.
He looked for teaching positions. Miami Jackson Senior High needed a science teacher.
The 25-year-old, looking no older than 18, told Assistant Principal Enid Weisman, during the job interview, that he wanted to be a superintendent.
"Chutzpah," Weisman, now the mayor of Aventura, called it. "To have never spent one day in a classroom. ... He's the only person who's ever said that to me."
Bright and articulate, Carvalho was hired on the spot in 1990. He promised administrators he'd wear the sharpest of suits to stand out among students. His coworkers called him "Armani." High school girls wrote him love letters, Weisman recalled. (Carvalho doesn't remember that, but said he does remember receiving candy hearts and chocolates from students.)
Jackson held another future political connection for Carvalho. Fedrick Ingram, the former president of United Teachers of Dade who is now president of the statewide teachers' union, was one of his students.
"He's always been the same person," Ingram said. "Very suit and tie, very put together."
Carvalho says he doesn't remember declaring his aspirations in his job interview. He does remember feeling fed up seeing brand new textbooks locked away in a storage closet. So when he heard a superintendent speak in his third year of teaching, he saw solutions — and a career path. He became an assistant principal two years later.
Carvalho crossed paths again with Weisman in 1996 when he was tapped to help her open William H. Turner Tech High, billed as the school of the future. Behind the scenes, Assistant Principal Carvalho charted the school's path and gave up weekends to tutor students. And he started working the speaking circuit, traveling to out-of-state conferences to deliver keynote addresses on school reform and career preparation.
Yet Carvalho never became principal of his own school — at least, not in the usual way. He didn't need to. Soon he was asked to come downtown and handle federal grants for schools with high populations of low-income students for the school district.
He never returned to the schoolhouse. But later he would appoint himself as principal of a boutique downtown school, his own school of the future, iPrep Academy.
So began his rise at district headquarters. Each job added a tool to his chest. Five years in government relations sharpened his political instincts. But it was his two years as chief communications officer that taught him the power of the media and where he mastered the art of the image — which many say are his biggest assets.
Michael Casserly, the executive director of the Council of Great City Schools, knew Carvalho then.
"Alberto was as hungry as anybody I've ever seen in a job like that," Casserly said. "He was skilled, he was talented, he was eager to be a success."
CHALLENGES AT THE START
These are brighter days for Miami-Dade County Public Schools.
They weren't always like that.
When Carvalho took over in 2008, the school district had nine inner-city schools on the state's shutdown list. The recession was bearing down on a district that was academically underwhelming and organizationally bloated.
Former Superintendent Rudy Crew's tenure with the School Board had reached a boiling point and he had been shown the door. Crew, now the president of Medgar Evers College in New York City, declined to comment for this story.
Four days into his superintendency, Carvalho gathered his close advisers and secretaries in his ninth-floor panoramic office well after hours. Weisman was there:
"He looked at us and he said, 'I've already transformed into my new role, and none of you have.' " (Carvalho remembers that meeting.)
Weisman describes him as a chameleon.
"He capitalizes on the art of the deal," Weisman said. "He visualizes where he wants to be maybe tomorrow, maybe two years. He visualizes himself in roles."
She added: "Maybe he plays a role so well, we don't know where the real ends and the fiction begins."
Carvalho was on a new schedule of 4 a.m. wake-ups. He cultivated a new cabinet of loyalists — media-friendly and always camera-ready.
With the limelight came control.
Take the ongoing saga of WLRN. The Miami-Dade County School Board has retained the broadcasting license for South Florida's sole public radio news station for decades. It's why School Board meetings are broadcast to listeners in Miami-Dade and Broward counties and why the superintendent's address runs at the 5 p.m. rush hour.
Carvalho's administration drafted a new operating agreement with WLRN in 2017 that would have forced reporters and editors employed by an independent nonprofit to reapply for jobs and work directly for the school district. The school district backed off and is currently soliciting a third-party management entity to run WLRN. The Miami Herald and WLRN have a partnership agreement.
And the New York debacle? Carvalho said he was breaking a promise among adults to keep a promise with children, but text messages with New York staff later revealed he haggled over speaking fees and was dismayed that he was dealing with staff and not the mayor. When the Miami-Dade School Board was beginning to buck him, some members reduced themselves to begging him to stay.
Carvalho had created a power play in which he forced Miami to basically negotiate against itself. He maneuvered the School Board that day just like he had in the past decade.
Early in his superintendency, Carvalho started paying attention to the spate of shootings beyond the schoolyard that left his students dead. He started making appearances at Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital. TV cameras followed.
"My name is Alberto Carvalho," he told the radio show "This American Life" in February 2013. "Over the past 4½ years, I have buried or attended viewings for 44 children who have died violent deaths right here in our community."
He is engrossed in the job. He's led workouts at the school district gym. He scribbles thoughts, ideas, musings, whatever on whiteboards throughout the ninth floor of the school district alone during his "quiet time" on the weekends.
"My wife often says that I'm really married to the community and she is my closest family member," Carvalho said. "But I'm married to the community. Maybe she's right."
(Carvalho did not make his wife of 21 years, Maria Borgia Carvalho, or adult daughter Alexandra of a previous marriage, available for interviews.)
As things turned around for the school district, his brand started to flourish — and so did his national reputation.
Carvalho put his ideas into motion. In 2009, he wanted to start a dual-enrollment program for students in partnership with Florida International University. He came dressed in a suit to a Golden Panthers football game to ask Mark Rosenberg, the new president, if FIU could foot the million-dollar bill.
Rosenberg agreed on the spot, without even knowing if he had the authority to agree to such a request. His children attended Miami-Dade County Public Schools and he says he's seen a stronger crop of students produced by the school district under Carvalho.
"There's no question that they are better, but expectations have grown, too," he said.
In a district where three out of four students qualify for subsidized lunch and 62,000 of them are still learning English, there have been no traditional public schools earning an F for three years. Now just one D school remains. Miami-Dade County Public Schools, with 345,000 students, is an A-rated school district for the second year in a row.
That success has brought hardware. Honors adorn the walls and cabinets and sit stacked and stuffed in the drawers of the office Carvalho says he hardly spends time in:
▪ Florida Superintendent of the Year
▪ National Superintendent of the Year
▪ Harold W. McGraw Prize in Education
▪ National Urban Superintendent of the Year
▪ National Association for Bilingual Education Superintendent of the Year
▪ Broad Prize for Urban Education — the Nobel Prize of education.
There are photos with President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and actress Goldie Hawn from that time she and Carvalho spoke about mindfulness and then got dinner at Joe's Stone Crab.
Carvalho has 57,000 followers on Twitter — more than local accounts of Luther Campbell, FlU and the mayors of Miami-Dade County and Miami combined. Teachers, parents, students, custodians all tweet at @MiamiSup, and it's really him on the other end, staying on-brand and on-message as he tweets district news, condolences, pop culture takes, platitudes and his own thoughts on daily events. There is no shortage of selfies with students who line up to take a photo with him.
He relates to them: His favorite rappers are Drake, Wiz Khalifa, Flo Rida and basically any artist from Miami.
How does he relate to so many people on a personal level? He calls it a "very good method of face, place and statement association."
He even has standing privileges to work La Ventanita at Versailles, a photo op usually used by politicians on the national campaign trail. Restaurant spokeswoman Nicole Valls says Carvalho has been stopping by periodically for a few years now.
"The customers love it. They take pictures with him," Valls wrote in an email.
Could anyone really do what he does? Even his biggest critics agree his clout is good for the district.
"Alberto likes the limelight and is successful in it and puts a positive face on our public schools," said Karen Aronowitz, former president of United Teachers of Dade. "I'd rather have him than a hundred others."
"I don't like him, but I do think he was the right man for the job," said Shawn Beightol, a teacher who took him to court over slashed teacher wages.
Carvalho doesn't like to talk about his regrets. Especially not the one that could've cost him the superintendency.
A desperate Miami-Dade School Board cut a lot of corners when it chose Carvalho in 2008. Crew was ousted and a replacement was needed. Quick.
There was no national search. Carvalho was already the pick to be superintendent of Pinellas County. He leveraged that opportunity with Miami-Dade, and board members put his name on the short list.
The next day, someone delivered a packet of emails to media outlets. They were between Carvalho, then an associate superintendent, and the Miami Herald's former education reporter, Tania deLuzuriaga.
From October 2006 to September 2007, deLuzuriaga wrote long, pained love letters to Carvalho. They discussed other Herald reporters, coverage, the inclusion (or absence) of quotes from Carvalho in her stories and how he should prepare for his interview in Pinellas.
The emails were salacious, and, a decade later, not forgotten.
Carvalho, at the time, questioned the authenticity of the emails. He suggested they may have been doctored. Then he said they may be real, but he deleted them without reading them.
He still maintains some of those emails weren't his. He didn't have a romantic relationship with deLuzuriaga but "a friendship that was rather free." He calls his own emails inappropriate.
"Tania landed a job at Harvard, and in the end she succeeded," he said, referring to deLuzuriaga's current career in public relations. "When it comes to judgment calls, we can all make better decisions in retrospect."
Would he have remained superintendent today in the era of #MeToo?
"Things have changed quite a bit," Carvalho said. "It's beyond me what the consequence would've been in today's time."
DeLuzuriaga was a rising star at the Boston Globe when the emails became public. She resigned from that job and later started a career in public relations that led her to Harvard University. She did not respond to requests for comment.
"We can never rewrite the past," Carvalho said. "I think the future has turned out bright for Ms. deLuzuriaga as I think the future has turned out bright for me as well."
The board members weren't happy about the alleged affair, but they still appointed him by a vote of 6-3.
Former School Board member Ana Rivas Logan said the scandal cost him her vote. There was already enough upheaval in the school district.
"It just seems like the only one who really gets hurt is the woman," she told the Herald.
Marta Perez, who has been on the board since 1998, dissented for another reason. The board never publicly announced it would consider Carvalho, she said. And yet somehow, Carvalho's supporters knew to show up at the district headquarters to speak in favor of his candidacy.
"I did not vote against him. I voted against the process," Perez said.
A similar drama played out when Carvalho flirted with the New York job in 2018.
He said he doesn't regret turning down that job. Becoming New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's education guy would've meant sharing the spotlight and losing the flexibility, range and control he enjoys in Miami.
De Blasio's communications team denied requests for comment. His press secretary at the time blasted Carvalho on Twitter.
"Not even New York City is big enough for Alberto Carvalho's ego and it's clear now that he wouldn't have survived here," Eric Phillips, who no longer works for de Blasio, told the Herald.
ALL THAT GLITTERS?
Skeptics say Miami-Dade's gold is too glittery. They've called into question some of the school district's standout statistics.
Some of Carvalho's biggest critics are from the African-American community. They feel they've been left behind on every front: academics, procurement with local businesses and facility upgrades at schools.
"We are aware of all of his accolades locally and nationally, but I believe we have some unfinished business when it comes to some of the things we hold near and dear to our community," said William D.C. Clark, president of I.C.A.R.E. (Inner City Alumni for Responsible Education).
A disparity study commissioned by the district so it could have the legal backing to set race-based procurement goals found that out of $600 million spent on the 2012 general obligation bond approved by voters to fix ailing schools and upgrade technology, $32 million went to prime black vendors. But $20 million of that went to one firm.
It's an issue Ron Frazier has dealt with for years. The former chair of the school district's Small Business Advisory Committee got involved with the bond to make sure the black community was not forgotten about again. A general obligation bond passed in 1988 didn't benefit schools in black communities.
Since then, more blacks and women have been added to the district's procurement teams. And policies have been put in place to better reflect the community the district serves. District staff members now say contracts for minority businesses are on the rise.
"I think there's slowly been improvement, not to the level I would like to see," Frazier said.
The commission created to assess the events leading up to, during and after the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland singled out Miami-Dade when looking at disciplinary statistics. It publicly doubted that zero physical attacks took place anywhere in the school district in 2017-18 while a single elementary school in Gainesville had 11.
State Sen. Lauren Book, D-Plantation, a close friend of Carvalho's, pointed out at a Senate committee meeting that the district reported no homicides for the 2009-10 school year when a student was stabbed to death at Coral Gables Senior High.
Guess which school had the highest number of reported discipline incidents in Miami-Dade in 2017-18, the latest data available: Wealthy Pinecrest's Palmetto Senior High.
WLRN pointed out a similar issue in 2017. The district said then what it's saying now: The discrepancies are a matter of over-reporting incidents, inconsistent reporting to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Florida Department of Education and administrators at each school not being on the same page for defining infractions.
A BIG FOOTPRINT
The Miami-Dade County school district is the largest public employer in Miami-Dade County with 40,000 workers. About half of them are teachers.
When it comes to pay, teachers might've lost the most under the Carvalho administration.
They suffered during the recession. Some teachers missed out on raises while others lost thousands of promised dollars during what would've been prime earning years. A group of teachers sued over it.
A task force born out of a School Board member's proposal recommended a property tax increase to raise funds to give teachers a hefty supplement for four years. Voters overwhelmingly approved, for the second time, paying more to help the school district.
Aronowitz, the past union leader, appreciated the hike, but said Carvalho was bad at sharing the credit.
"There would be things that the union had proposed years ago that never came to fruition when we were negotiating," she said. "Then they're put in place and he's getting credit for coming up with it."
Carvalho and the union tout that Miami-Dade teachers are paid above the national average, however two-thirds of today's workforce still make below that figure. Now, many mid-career teachers barely make more than an entry-level teacher with the referendum supplement.
Current UTD President Karla Hernandez-Mats said the union has had "good days and bad days" during Carvalho's tenure.
"However, we acknowledge that at a time when public schools are constantly underfunded and given tenuous mandates, he has been able to collaborate with the union for the betterment of our unit, cared for the well-being of students, and ensured that the conditions of our education system have steadily improved for Miami-Dade," she wrote in an emailed statement.
Carvalho won't put an expiration date on his superintendency.
His contract was extended last year to 2023. That would be a 15-year tenure as superintendent, the second-longest in the Miami-Dade school district's history. (C.M. Fisher served as superintendent from 1921 to 1937.)
His base salary is around $353,000. He got a raise and a contract extension in 2015 after it was rumored the Los Angeles Unified School District, the second-largest public school system in the country, was looking to lure him away.
Some believe the end will come as 2020 warms up.
He swears he's not interested in running for political office, even for mayor of Miami-Dade County. He won't rule it out, either. He's asked about it all the time.
"I've said it repeatedly," Carvalho said. "I have no intention of running for office in 2020. There is no position that's available that quite frankly I feel like [I] connect as aggressively with other than the superintendency in Miami-Dade."
Pollsters say he'd win it handily.
"He is the most popular un-elected official in Miami-Dade County," said campaign consultant Steve Marin.
"No one else has numbers like him," said campaign consultant Keith Donner.
He inserted himself into Miami's Major League Soccer saga, frustrating the ones elected to fight that battle. He unsuccessfully proposed that the School Board would become a partner in a soccer stadium deal that would also open a magnet school.
And when officials were threatening to raid schools to find undocumented students, he said: "Over my dead body."
He went on the campaign trail and passed a multimillion-dollar commitment from taxpayers to pay for a cop in every school, all to avoid arming teachers.
Carvalho has been careful to play both sides: Instead of tamping down on charter schools and voucher-like scholarships, he accepted a challenge to compete with them. He even accepted an invitation as the keynote speaker for an organization formerly chaired by U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, the American Federation for Children, though a scheduling issue prevented his appearance.
Carvalho tweets like a liberal, but the independent voter isn't a villain to the proponents for charter schools and vouchers. He brags about the competition, often parsing out favorable statistics for traditional schools when charters are excluded. And he turned it into a side hustle: The school district offers management services to charters, and seven charter schools have taken them up on it.
Charter school lobbyist and former state Rep. Ralph Arza can see Carvalho as a viable candidate for governor.
"He doesn't have any open enemies in this community who are out to get him in politics," he said. "He makes sure he doesn't have any."
Other observers have doubts. In any other run for office, Carvalho would have to draft legislation, make compromises, take on more public enemies.
"He's got to be a little more open to criticism and he needs to grow a thicker skin because it's a different environment when you're putting your name on a ballot versus when you're appointed," said former two-time School Board member and state representative Renier Diaz de la Portilla.
Community activist Tangela Sears, an ally of Carvalho's, can't see him anywhere else.
"Alberto is obsessed with education and kids," she said. "I think because of his involvements and engagements people think he wants to run for office. I don't see him really separating himself from kids."
Ask Carvalho what's left to do and he'll tell you: There are pockets of kids falling behind in schools with good letter grades. The target for 2021 is a graduation rate of 90% (that figure now is 89% excluding charter schools). He harps on his promise that he'll accept no salary in his last year on the job.
He's been reading up on the high school of the future. He's fascinated with the future of work in a decade or two and how to prepare students for the thousands of jobs that will vanish.
A school that breaks the mold: The day starts later and ends later. There's no mandated seat time, and there is no traditional school year. The classrooms are hospitals and courtrooms and TV stations. There will be artificial intelligence, digitization, automation "side by side" with a highly effective committed teacher.
"I think the one thing we know about the future... is that it's going to come," Carvalho said. "You cannot stop it. And with it come changes."
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Sen. Rand Paul plans to block John Brennan's nomination to head the CIA until he more fully lays out his views about the executive branch's authority over its drones policy.
Paul said he would place a hold on the nomination until Brennan declares whether he believes the United States has the authority to use unmanned drones to conduct targeting killings of Americans — in the United States.
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If Brennan and the White House refuse to provide the information, Paul said that he would object to efforts to schedule a vote, a move that would require Democrats to find 60 votes to advance the nomination.
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Head coach Tara VanDerveer's team has been atop the nation's rankings for six straight weeks, tying the record for the longest such streak in Stanford history. Now, the No. 1 Cardinal look to extend it with two conference road games this weekend. (Photo: JOHN TODD/isiphotos.com)
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After 10 games, No. 1 Stanford (10-0, 7-0 Pac-12) is rolling. The Cardinal has been ranked atop the AP poll for a program record-tying six straight weeks despite playing just one game at Maples Pavilion.
From Jan. 5-10, Stanford practiced and played in Santa Cruz, and the team arrived in Utah on Wednesday. Over the weekend, Stanford will take on Utah (3-7, 2-7 Pac-12) on Friday and Colorado (4-6, 2-5 Pac-12) on Sunday.
Nationally, Stanford is fourth in field goal percentage defense (31.1), fifth in scoring margin (31.0) and eighth in rebound margin (14.8).
Still, not everything is rosy. While Stanford is 13th nationally in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.45), over the last three games the Cardinal has had at least as many turnovers as assists. Against then-No. 6 Arizona, Stanford had 16 of each, facing Arizona State there were 15 assists to 17 turnovers and in the gritty win over then-No. 11 Oregon, Stanford had eight assists to 17 turnovers.
The caveat from the Oregon game is that Stanford was missing players on the court due to COVID-19 protocols for the first time. The three players to miss the game — junior guard Lexie Hull, senior forward Alyssa Jerome and sophomore guard Hannah Jump — will be available for Friday's game against Utah.
Ahead of the weekend's games, here are three thoughts on the program.
Can't keep up with Jones
Since returning from a season-ending injury she suffered in 2020, sophomore guard Haley Jones has been spectacular. Jones currently leads the team in points, rebounds and assists per game. The last Stanford player to lead the team in all three categories for a full season was Nicole Powell in 2003-04.
Nationally, Jones is 38th in field goal percentage at 0.570 and is behind only sophomore forward Fran Belibi (.576), Washington State's Ula Motuga (0.582) and freshman forward Cameron Brink (0.623) in the conference standings.
Within the conference, Jones leads the Pac-12 in rebounding (9.4), and is sixth in scoring (15.2), 11th in assists (3.5) and 12th in blocked shots (1.1).
Remarkably, Jones is 195th nationally in points per game. Stanford has done an incredible job of sharing the scoring duties from game to game. Each of the five players who are averaging double-digit scoring have also led the team in scoring in at least one game.
The tape on her play is elite. Here, she does not let the defense get set, playing with the pace that head coach Tara VanDerveer has been begging for from her team.
Can't stop @haleyjoness19 in transition 😤
📺 » @Pac12Network#GoStanford pic.twitter.com/Hn3r6BcXZo
— Stanford Women's Basketball (@StanfordWBB) January 8, 2021
She uses her 6-foot-1 frame to gain position, drives with conviction and finishes off the glass. Jones' ability in transition is why Stanford is so dangerous when she gets a defensive rebound. Whether she is scoring herself or dishing to a teammate, Jones pushing the floor is almost an assured bucket.
She got out and 𝗥𝗔𝗡 the floor!@fran_belibi1 with her first double-double of the season!
📺 » @Pac12Network#GoStanford pic.twitter.com/pZTjh6sQmK
In the above clip, Jones finds Belibi from 40 feet out in stride for an easy but crucial two points. Even in a half court offense, few defenders can match up with Jones.
Too pretty from @haleyjoness19 😍#GoStanford pic.twitter.com/esQVScY2kx
Jones, maneuvering in the paint around two defenders, is able to get an open look for herself. Finally, because there can never be enough, here is a clip of Jones' court vision to once again connect with Belibi.
.@StanfordWBB rolled to 28 points in the 3rd quarter, ending with this gem by @fran_belibi1. 💎
Catch the end of the top 25 showdown on us. ⤵
📺 Pac-12 Network
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— Pac-12 Network (@Pac12Network) January 8, 2021
On the topic, few players in the entire sport can cover ground like Belibi. Stanford is nurturing a special talent and so far Belibi has thrived in her starting role.
Fran with the hustle play 🥵 @fran_belibi1 @StanfordWBB pic.twitter.com/Dl4pf5KeOb
— WSLAM (@wslam) January 8, 2021
Freshman standout
For how special Jones has been, Brink has been Stanford's best player on a per-minute basis. Per 30 minutes, Brink is recording a team-high 8.1 made field goals, 13.2 rebounds, 4.7 blocks and 6.6 trips to the free throw line.
The problem is that she is also averaging 4.3 fouls per 30 minutes, which, along with a crowded rotation, explains why her season high in minutes is just 21. Even if Brink is not pushing senior guard Kiana Williams' 31.3 minutes per game, for a player who can do all of the things in this video, that simply is not enough.
In what may have been her best game statistically, Brink fouled out in 10 minutes against USC, but by that point she had 12 points, 6 rebounds, an assist, two blocks, a steal and had not missed a shot.
Enjoying the gift of watching @cameronbrink22 ball out 🤩#GoStanford pic.twitter.com/MBIIZ1COL6
— Stanford Women's Basketball (@StanfordWBB) December 24, 2020
After the historic win over Cal, in which VanDerveer tied the all-time wins record, Brink spoke to the media about her play. Answering a question about staying on the court, she ended the answer by saying, "I can improve." The conference's block leader should be VanDerveer's first call off the bench, but has yet to show a consistent ability to stay on the court.
Now, Brink is recovering from injury and played just 13 minutes against Oregon after sitting out against Arizona State. Through the nine games in which she has played, she has scored 99 points, which is the most for a Stanford freshman since Chiney Ogwumike '14 also scored 99 in 2010. Of course, Ogwumike also started every game in which she played that season, while Brink has yet to start for the Cardinal.
Meanwhile, VanDerveer should continue to find ways to allow freshman point guard Jana Van Gytenbeek to run the offense. Understandably behind other guards in the rotation, Van Gytenbeek has still made the most of her minutes.
Per 30 minutes, she is averaging 6.3 assists, by far the most on the team, and her 3.4 assist to turnover ratio is also the team's best, belying her age. Against Oregon, she was able to come off the bench to score eight crucial points. With each game, she has looked more comfortable in a catch and shoot role.
Commitment from the Betts
Before Stanford even travels to Colorado to take on the Buffaloes, the Cardinal received fantastic news from the state. Lauren Betts, the top-ranked high school recruit in the class of 2022, announced her commitment to Stanford on Wednesday.
Betts will join Van Gytenbeek, sophomore forward Ashten Prechtel and Belibi to represent the centennial state for Stanford. Scouts like her size (she is 6-foot-7) but give her the edge for her contributions on the international stage. At the 2019 FIBA Americas U16 Championship, Betts averaged 12.2 points and 13.5 rebounds through six games for Team USA.
COMMITTED! GO CARDINAL! ❤🌲 pic.twitter.com/Ly2YF8JkSS
— lauren betts (@laurenbetts12) January 13, 2021
The commitment marks a continuation of strong recruiting for Stanford, which last signed the top recruit just two years ago in Jones. Betts, from Grandview High School in Colorado, is the first player to sign in the class of 2022.
Contact Daniel Martinez-Krams at danielmk 'at' stanford.edu.
Daniel Martinez-Krams '22 is a staff writer in the sports section. He is a Biology major from Berkeley, California. Please contact him with tips or feedback at dmartinezkrams 'at' stanforddaily.com.


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BHP's iron ore profits show why Beijing wants to talk the price down
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Tucked away on page 38 of BHP Group's 39-page presentation of its latest results is as good an explanation as any as to why China desperately wants to talk down the price of iron ore.
Under the somewhat bland title of "Key underlying EDITDA sensitivities", BHP reveals that every $1 change in the price of iron ore leads to a change of approximately $119 million in the underlying earnings for the current fiscal half year ending June 30.
BHP, the world's biggest mining company and third-biggest producer of iron ore, supplied 129 million tonnes of the raw material used to make steel in its fiscal first half ended Dec. 31. It expects to mine much the same volume in the current half.
Its average realised price per tonne of iron ore in the half ended Dec. 31 was $113.54. That was down from $158.17 in the previous six-month period, but still resulted in the iron ore division reporting underlying EBITDA of a somewhat less bland $11.15 billion.
Iron ore prices have had a strong start to 2022, with the spot price for delivery to north China, as assessed by commodity price reporting agency Argus, hitting a high of $153.55 a tonne on Feb. 10.
The price has since retreated to end at $139.65 a tonne on Wednesday, partly as a result of Beijing's renewed efforts to talk it down. At these prices, BHP's iron ore profits in the current half will only swell.
China's state planner on Feb. 9 issued a second warning so far in 2022 to the iron ore market, warning participants that they "should not fabricate or publish any false price information and should not drive up prices."
The National Development and Reform Administration (NDRC), together with the market regulator, will hold what it called a "reminding and warning" symposium with domestic and foreign iron ore traders on Thursday, Reuters reported on Feb. 15.
This meeting can be seen as part of Beijing's efforts to take some heat out of iron ore prices, reflecting the view that the price is at unsustainably high levels and not justified by fundamentals.
Certainly, BHP's estimate of an increase in earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortisation (EBITDA) of $119 million in the current quarter for every $1 increase in the price of iron ore does provide Beijing with some ammunition.
It's hard to know exactly what price Beijing would see as fair and sustainable for iron ore, but it's likely to be closer to around $80 a tonne than the current level.
If an average price of $130 a tonne is assumed for the first half of 2022 – which doesn't seen unreasonable given the spot price's performance so far – it implies that a company like BHP is making $50 a tonne more than what Beijing might deem reasonable.
That $50 would translate into $5.95 billion in extra EBITDA in the six months to June 30, expressed using BHP's "sensitivities".
This calculation is of course merely a theoretical musing. But it does show how much money is flowing to BHP from China's steelmakers that Beijing might regard as unjustified profits.
HOW LOW CAN IRON ORE GO?
The key question for China, which buys about 70% of global seaborne iron ore, is how much lower can it drive the price of the material, especially in the light of fairly strong supply and demand fundamentals.
It's not the fault of the miners that China is buying robust volumes. Refinitiv estimates imports in the first two months of 2022 will be around 180.5 million tonnes, while commodity analysts Kpler are even more bullish, estimating imports of around 200 million tonnes.
There is also a widespread market view that Beijing will ramp up stimulus spending in the first half once the Winter Olympics are concluded, a move that would be bullish for steel and iron ore.
Another potential bullish factor is on the supply side, with the cyclone season under way in Western Australia state, home to the bulk of production in the world's biggest iron ore producer.
The Australian Bureau of Meteorology has predicted an average to above average number of cyclones, raising the risks of disruptions to mining and transport operations in Western Australia.


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Input Oddities
This is part 1 of a series called "Windows 95 Style Guidelines You've Probably Never Heard Of".
Windows 95, when it came out, was revolutionary, at least compared to the mess that was Windows 3.1 anyways. Along with the new concepts of a "desktop" and "window icons" and a "close button" were a understandably hefty style guideline. After all, if you're trying to go for "easy to use" and "consistent", it's best to make sure everyone else knows how to follow suit.
For the record, I'm specifically talking about the style guide at this link here, from February 1995, if you want to browse through that. It's worth a read, especially considering that I'm not planning on covering the design philosophies of the Windows team, which are pretty interesting.
This particular article is about weird interface oddities you've probably never though about. Not all of them are that odd, and not all of them even exist today, but they're things to think about.
Scrolling when Dragging (pg. 77)
This is probably something you take for granted, but the window scrolls when you move around content within it. And trust me, it certainly does not do that automatically. In fact, there's a formula that programs use to calculate how fast to scroll in any direction:
"To calculate the velocity, sum the distance between the points [of the mouse's position before and after] in each adjacent sample and divide the total by the sum of the time elapsed between samples. Distance is the absolute value of the difference between the x and y locations, or (abs(x1 - x2) + abs(y1 - y2)). Multiply this by 1024 and divide it by the elapsed time to produce the velocity."
This is noteworthy because a frustrating amount of programs only seem to want to scroll at a set speed that is simply far, far too slow half the time. In fact, it seems the only time where this is really done right is when you do the middle-click scroll. And it's not like you'd even have to program it yourself, as the OS provides built-in support for automatic scrolling. This is a minor thing that adds a lot to the feel of an application.
It's worth noting that it uses that weird formula instead of the typical Cartesian distance formula with square roots and all that due to computation speed issues. It's also worth noting that Windows 95 was released at a time where a floating point processor was still considered optional, much like airbags and ABS brakes were once considered optional in cars. Obviously, because it's the 21st century, you could probably get away with doing the more accurate math.
Proportional Scrollboxes (Pg. 98)
Another one of those things you never think about. There is, and has always been, a scrollbox to the right of content. You drag up on the scrollbox and the content goes up and vice versa. The entire scrollbar is supposed to represent the entire document. And, for the first time ever, Windows 95 scaled the shaft to be proportional with the document. No, seriously, this is huge. For the first time you could quickly tell the approximate size of the document, and percisely where you were on it.
The Shaft (Pg. 99)
The "background" of the scrollbar (named the "shaft") is actually clickable element. If you click on the shaft once, it moves the content a distance equal to the height of the visible on-screen space, with a little overlap. This is equivalent to the Pg. Up and Pg. Down keys most the time. Now, if you hold on the shaft, the auto-repeat feature kicks in, which causes it to page-up/down infintely. Except not, because the scrollbox comes along and intercepts your mouse pointer, making it stop scrolling. It's a simple but efficiently genius idea, if you ask me.
The Scroll Lock Key (Pg. 102)
Yeah, that key. The key that's been sitting there collecting dust since forever. You've probably prodded that key, saw the light come on, and then realized that it seemed to do nothing. As it turned out it did do something. "When the SCROLL LOCK key is toggled on and the user presses a navigation key, [like Pg. Up/Down, arrows, etc] the view scrolls without affecting the cursor or selection." You probably thought it some old MS-DOS holdover, didn't you? Turns out that this whole time it was serving a very legitimate purpose. You can scroll up real quick to check something and then go back typing exactly where you were. Of course, you could do this with the scrollbar or scroll wheel as well, but for those keyboard power-users it's a nice feature. Unfortunately Microsoft seems to have axed this feature, as just trying it in Windows 7 did nothing. Darn shame too, I totally would have used that all the time.
Different Pointers for Different Drag Operations (pg. 79)
Dragging and dropping in an application can preform a totally different action depending on the context. For example, in Windows Explorer dragging a file to the same drive moves, but dragging to another drive copies. It is often confusing when it does what, especially with unfamiliar programs. As it turns out they came up with a solution.
The blank pointer is supposed to symbolize moving, the [+] copying, and the shortcut icon OLE linking. This makes things a lot easier when it comes to determining what, exactly, you're even doing. This actually does still work does still work in modern Windows, however it is one of those things you never really think about.
While I'm talking about the difference between copying and moving, there's some neat tricks it has as well. Holding Ctrl and dragging does the opposite of the default action (copies if it is supposed to move and vice-versa) and dragging with the right mouse button pops up a menu asking you what action you want to take with the file.
Split Boxes (Pg. 104)
A neat feature of some applications is the ability to view documents side-by-side. It's useful for viewing different parts of the same file, or possibly even two different files, although this probably isn't the most optimal way to accomplish that. Split boxes are a weird lost feature that make this ability more obvious. To signify that a window can be split, a small box is placed above the top scroll arrow. Dragging down from this splits the window into two. Double-clicking on it splits it at a default location. And split boxes don't have to disapear when you use them, allowing for multiple splits. It's a really neat idea, but it was probably scrapped because it's functionality wasn't obvious at first glance.
Pen Input
Oh yeah. Windows 95 supported touchscreens. With handwriting-to-text and everything. It was really though out, to say the least. A good portion of the style manual is littered with pen-specific notes. It's, well, insane to say the least. Makes you wonder why they never took off back then. I'd assume it's because it was on the costly side, but then again light pens were around for years before that. Food for thought.
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At issue, whether a public university law school may deny school funding and other benefits to a religious student organization because the group requires its officers and voting members to agree with its core religious viewpoints. By a 5-4 decision, the justices denied the appeal of the Christian Legal Society and remanded the case back to the Ninth Circuit.
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