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Tag: education

  • How the County Commission played the School Board for the fool

    There are five simple rules that Kenny Rodgers taught me about life, politics, and the budget process: Know when to hold ’em. Know when to fold ’em. Know when to walk away. Know when to run. Never count your money, while you’re sittin’ at the table. There’ll be time enough for countin’ when the dealin’s…

  • Why Would Anyone Want to Teach in Tennessee?

    Track HB 740 here This is a question I keep asking myself as bill after bill slides right through the state legislature. Last year it was the right to have a seat at the table when negotiating salary, class sizes, and all sorts of other things. This year its tenure and perhaps most egregious, payment…

  • via City Council Chair Lowery

    Below is a fact sheet sent out by City Council Chairman Myron Lowery. I’ll have a post on this at some point, but I’m still tracking down a few details… — City of Memphis Education Funding Fact Sheet · The City of Memphis has paid MCS over $171.7 million in operating funds since July 2008…

  • 100 Days of Less than Little

    Yesterday, TN Gov. Bill Haslam celebrated his first 100 days in office with, what else, a snazzy press release. This first 100 has been busy folks, not so much for the Governor, who has been more than willing to sit idly by as the more firebrand members of his party run the state from the…

  • Charter School Shenanigans

    Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam likes Charter Schools. In fact, he likes them so much that he wants to remove any caps on the number that can be chartered in the state and make sure locals have no say in the matter if they don’t want them. Have some chocolate pie, it’ll make you feel better.…

  • Rep. Womick Lets the Cat Outta the Bag

    Republican State House member Rick Womick doesn’t want you to think the Tennessee Republican Party is out to get teachers. Oh no, not at all. As a matter of fact, he thinks the teachers of Rutherford Co. are fantastic, as for the rest of you yayhoos, who knows. Womick wants to reassure teachers that Republicans…