Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Unexcused absence

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For the record: MNPS Addresses “Great American Boycott of 2006” NASHVILLE, Tenn. (April 26, 2006) – The administration of Metropolitan Nash...
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AP test results

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This chart was presented at last evening's Metro Nashville Board of Education meeting. The presenter focused on the fact that they were ...
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Tuesday, April 25, 2006

TEA gets a lesson

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from Bill Hobbs . The current TEA legislative report encourages members to lobby against Sen. Jim Bryson's bill to constitutionally l...
Friday, April 21, 2006

SOS proposal

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I've not seen any of the SOS materials but from what I read in this morning's City Paper --there seems to be good reason to read and...
Thursday, April 20, 2006

Education Davids

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Today's must read comes from a new blog called Edpresso.com . Starting from Tennessee's Instapundit Glenn Reynolds' new book ...

Candidates?

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I'm disappointed that the only quotes contained in this morning's Nashville City Paper article about the 3rd draft of the MNPS budg...
Wednesday, April 19, 2006

$1.8M update

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This morning's Nashville City Paper has some additional information about the $1.8 million mentioned here yesterday. Unfortunately the...
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Monday, April 17, 2006

$1.8 million paperwork shuffle

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An interesting bit in the Metro Council agenda for Tuesday. The city got some money. But the city can't just 'give' it to the sc...

Lottery Scholarships

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Today's Chattanooga Times Free-Press reports what was known before the Tennessee lottery was enacted--it's not the poor students th...
Thursday, April 13, 2006

Why should I pay twice?

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The recent excellent investigative reporting by the Tennessean actually lured me back to subscribing. Today I discovered something new--I ha...

Ed reporter hired by MNPS

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Tennessean education reporter Diane Long has been hired by the Metro Nashville Public Schools according to a press release from MNPS today. ...
Friday, April 07, 2006

MNPS School Board Elections

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Kathy Nevill , Metro School Board Vice-Chairman, is not going to run for reelection this year according to this morning's City Paper . N...
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Stossel's still waiting

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Some of you may remember that ABC's John Stossel ran a report on January 13 called "Stupid in America". I gave my observations...
Thursday, April 06, 2006

Mandisa's coming home! :-)

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Last night our favorite Idol contestant, Mandisa, was voted off of American Idol . I can't say that I wasn't entirely surprised by t...
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Monday, April 03, 2006

Information please

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Why does Circuit Court Clerk Richard Rooke r have an 'about' page on the Circuit Court's web site? Shouldn't that be an ...
Friday, March 31, 2006

Honestly

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Jon Crisp's column in this morning's Tennessean points out, again, that there are some serious issues in the MNPS that must be addr...
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A crippling education

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This morning's City Paper wastes ink and trees and tells us the MNPS School Board opposes vouchers. That's not news. It's more...
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Monday, March 27, 2006

Plagiarism is stealing even if you're the AP

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This story about MSM plagiarism ( via Glenn Reynolds ) hits just too close to home. I know a bit about how this feels and it's maddenin...

Political families

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I've been in Nashville 25 years now and still, nearly every election cycle, I discover a new thread in the web of political connections ...
Sunday, March 26, 2006

Focus is good

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This morning's Tennessean (page 3A) contained a highly edited version of the New York Times article about schools being forced by No Chi...
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