Tuesday, May 31, 2005

Money for Memphis schools. Where?

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The Memphis Commerical Appeal is reporting that their school board has pledged to fully fund their school budget and like Nashville it now ...

We're all stakeholders, all the time.

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What started as a nice little article by John Branston about the White Station (Memphis) graduation ended with a paragraph I can't help...

More "Waltzing" in Memphis?

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This morning Darrell Phillips, Memphis television reporter and blogger has posted that some on the Memphis School Board are "jittery...
Monday, May 30, 2005

Dropping out or getting on with life?

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I'm working on a longer essay on education choice but this seemed too timely to wait. Break from the herd (Registration is required...
Friday, May 27, 2005

Love on TSBA and national committee

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Thanks to Simply I for pointing out that Charles Love of our recent "Tennessee Waltz" corruption investigation is not only a memb...

$40K and a living wage.

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This from Education Intellegence Agency via Daryl Cobranchi's blog . "The National Education Association Representative Assem...

"Waltzing" school board member

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Hamilton County School Board member Charles Love was missed at last evening's board meeting according to this News Channel 9 (Chattanoog...
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Thursday, May 26, 2005

Sting has education link.

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Legislators were arrested this morning in a sting operation conducted by the FBI, TBI and USDOJ. The sting involved a bogus computer recycl...
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Wednesday, May 25, 2005

And so the battle begins.

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The Tennessean's article titled "Schools feel insulted" is one thing but the photo of Dr. Pedro Garcia, the Director of Scho...
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Gov. Pre-K poll: last known numbers

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An e-mail from a Tennessean reporter got me thinking about that AWOL poll from Governor Bredesen's blog . I checked with some of my ...
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Tuesday, May 24, 2005

Nashville Mayor suggests tax hike.

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From the Mayor's State of the City address this morning: "This year the schools completed a comprehensive survey of funding options...

There is no 'right' to a summer vacation.

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This issue comes up on a regular basis since our society became less agricultural and local economies began to rely on this long summer brea...

A Call for Honesty.

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This seems an interesting difference of opinions. We have Carol Johnson of Memphis saying: "Given an almost 20 percent dropout rate (as...

Interesting last line from Mr. Huth.

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Interesting last line from Eric Huth the Metro Nashville Education Associaton negotiator is provided by the Nashville City Paper on 5/23. “...

"I guess we'll pick her."

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Physical Education in schools is the subject of this Nashville City Paper editorial from 5/23/05. "Right now, Metro schools require tw...

She knows what works.

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Sue Johnson , superintendent of Memphis City Schools is quoted in this Commercial Appeal article from 5/22/05. In this article she appears ...

Pre-K Post-vote

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The Tennessea n education writers were very busy putting together a series of eleven articles on Pre-K . Maybe I wasn't paying attention...
Friday, May 20, 2005

A little help here, please.

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My state senator, Joe Haynes and I disagree on a regular basis. Here is another instance. According to this morning's Nashville City Pap...

Trying to work it out.

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Those of you in Memphis don't want to miss Sen. Mark Norris' (R-Collierville) comments in the Commercial-Appeal this morning regar...
Thursday, May 19, 2005

Where have I heard this before?

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MNPS spokesman Woody McMillan is expressing the system's displeasure at the recent Newsweek rankings of schools which I blogged about l...