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There are a lot of high-powered people working very hard to convince the public that moving the Knox County Schools Administrative Offices and the Board of Education into the TVA East Tower is a great deal. It seems that they believe convincing the public will, in turn, pressure the Board of Education to accept this Continue reading TVA Tower Doesn’t Meet District Needs Putting Knox County Schools in the TVA Towers will limit public access.*REAL ID is only one of many concerns regarding placing our public schools’ administrative offices in a federal building. Please see my other posts on the TVA Tower to get a sense of the magnitude of problems with this deal.
WHAT IS Continue reading TVA Tower and REAL ID 
I am still calling it a “draft,” but I don’t know where else I could stick anything! The latest Money Map is here! If the PDF versions below are too small, you might try the link to the full map I uploaded to xmind: http://www.xmind.net/m/BSp9 The House and Senate ESA Bill Comparison is in three different formats, below. Google Chrome is recommended for the best viewing, but there should be a format that works for everyone. If not, please let me know in the comments. House and Senate ESA Bill Comparison
Oddly, all of the “improvements” that have been made to Tennessee House Bill 939, the Education Savings Account Voucher program, have reverted back to their original form in the version that is expected to be presented Wednesday, April 10th. Were those amendments not made in good faith? It certainly gives the appearance that votes were Continue reading About Those Voucher Amendments… The TN ESA Voucher Bill, HB 939 is Still Terrible. An annotated version is below. What else do you see that we haven’t covered?
We are hearing increasing reports of bullying, harassment, and intimidation tactics being used by Tennessee legislators, to strong-arm YOUR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES into voting the way THEY want them to vote, rather than for the interests of constituents. Now, we are also hearing that people who voted for Governor Bill Lee have called his office to Continue reading Would the Governor’s office LIE to the Public? If you still think the constant attacks on Tennessee’s teachers are partisan attacks, you’ve got some catching up to do! The school voucher plan has been deceptively re-named “Education Savings Account,” with the hope that it can be fast-tracked through the legislature before constituents notice they have been had. And Continue reading Cover Your Eyes; Our Legislators’ PAC Priorities Are Showing! Please watch this meeting of the Tennessee House Education Subcommittee on Curriculum, Testing, and Innovation regarding creating a new commission (yes, bigger government) to authorize charter schools, after local school districts vote not to authorize them. (Skip forward to 42:34 – HB 0940) If the video does not play, you can also access it Continue reading Pass the Bill and Figure it out Later?! |
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