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Tag: Knox County Schools

  • Education: Tennessee’s Under-Funded Mandate

    The State of Tennessee recognizes the inherent value of education and encourages its support. The General Assembly shall provide for the maintenance, support and eligibility standards of a system of free public schools. The General Assembly may establish and support such postsecondary educational institutions, including public institutions of higher learning, as it determines. –Tenn. Const.…

  • It’s Not a Promise, It’s a Threat

    The noise machine is cranking up again. After a week or so of cooling off during the Christmas to New Years media dead zone, the coverage got ratcheted up again yesterday thanks to a “press conference” from the good folks at the Shelby County School Board. But don’t be fooled. All the rhetoric coming from…