Monday, October 09, 2006

Disenfranchised MNEA voters?

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More on the union vote to turn down incentive pay. It's beginning to look like MNEA may have some questions to answer about how the vote...

MNEA Agenda 10/10/2006

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I didn't receive the MNPS BOE agenda packet in the mail this weekend. They did get the very short 2 page version on the MNPS website th...

Corker, usually Republican

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Just got a phone call from a polling company. In the upcoming senatorial election will you be voting for Bob Corker or Harold Ford? Corker. ...

MNPS side of the incentive rejection by MNEA

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Here's a snip from the MNPS press release regarding the vote on incentive pay for teachers and staff that do their jobs better. Erick...

Shameful

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Add this to the information released late on Friday in order to have it cold by the time folks are paying attention Monday morning. Metro sc...

Comcast Cares

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Saturday before breakfast Comcast employees were already hard at work at Isaac Litton Middle School . When I arrived just before 7:30 they w...
Friday, October 06, 2006

Blogger Beta

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I've upgraded to Blogger Beta. I'm liking it a lot more. I'm fairly competent with html but I've never been a fan and so I...

She's gone!

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Education Reporter Claudette Riley who has cranked out some really excellent pieces on the education of the children in our area has left th...
Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Grading Garcia

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Director of Schools Pedro Garcia's contract is up for review. The City Paper tells us this morning that, as was announced in previous b...
Monday, October 02, 2006

In loco parentis loco

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This is not a good beginning for our new school board, or its new chairman. School board member (and chairman of the Board for the Council o...
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Thursday, September 28, 2006

Wrong way to pick public art

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We learn this morning that the Metro Arts Commission still doesn't have the slightest concern for public opinion as they decide behind ...
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Monday, September 25, 2006

Big Dig vs. PSC Metals

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Recycling Today gives us a much better view of the 'scrap yard' that is PSC Metals (formerly Steiner-Liff) in the backyard of LP Fi...

Why they're leaving

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This article has a few clues about why black families are leaving the public school system. Those who have ears to hear... "We felt li...

Starting Monday in high gear

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Jessalynn Bailey from Jackson, Tennessee vents first thing this morning and gives the educrats an earful. This part tends to be true in my e...
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Sunday, September 24, 2006

MNPS BOE Agenda Packet for September 26, 2006

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As long as the Metropolitan Public Schools School Board doesn't keep its agenda page updated and as long as I continue receiving the ag...
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Friday, September 22, 2006

"Pawns" is right

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Bob Krumm's comments on the ridiculous reach for children by Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools Superintendent Pedro Garcia are must...

Quote of the day

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Maybe the new Tennessee Education Association president Earl Winman would like a chance to reword this. He tells educators across the stat...
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Every state should do this

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The Kansas State Board of Education is taking a serious look at its participation in NCLB (No Child Left Behind). They're not alone. Som...
Thursday, September 21, 2006

Suffer not the little children

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KIPP Academy has been one of two red-headed step children in the Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools system. Despite the fact that these ...

MNPS ACT standings

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There's a chart at ACT.org that helps put these ACT scores in some context. I've taken that chart and included the names of the Met...
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