Category: Education

Over the weekend I had the pleasure of attending the debate between two local high schools about the charter surrender resolution. I gotta say, those kids prepped their butts off on a topic that has vexed more than a few adults. Kudos to debaters Arlana Addison and Ebony Bailey of Kingsbury High School, Ashley Ray…

Yesterday, Jackson Baker of the Memphis Flyer published a series of videos from the multitude of Town Hall meetings held on Thursday. Some of the comments in those videos are more interesting than others. I’ll leave it up to you to draw your conclusions. In other news, the state ordered SCS to contract with its…

So yesterday I said that the media fervor was slowing down. Looks like I spoke too soon. Today brings us a bevy of articles from all over the spectrum, including a first national look from the New York Times. Yep, we’re big time now. Lots of reports about the various and sundry forums and town…

Another day, another debate. Media coverage has slowed considerably, probably due to the absolute lack of answers to the remaining questions. Opponents of the merger have and will continue to use these questions as a means to scare and confuse voters. This was evident both last night at the WMC Debate and Tuesday at the…

Debate!, FORUM, lively discussion… Whatever you want to call it, it happened last night, right before the State of the Union Address, which made for a whole night of politics. I wasn’t able to sit down and listen to the whole thing. Life intervened. If you missed it too, you can watch it here. Based…

Yawn… Long weekend. And really nothing new. Whalum still doesn’t take Bill Gates at his word. Gatewood is still defending her honor from attacks from County Commissioner Terry Roland. The State Legislature is still on vacay. Memphis still owes MCS however much money we owe them. And Jeff Warren is still desperately seeking to pass…