Press Release from the State of Tennessee, Dec 02, 2011:
NASHVILLE – The Tennessee Department of Education today released complete results from the 2011 state Report Card. Today’s release includes district- and school-level data…
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Race to the Top
The governor has asked all state agencies to submit a contingency plan for 5 percent reductions, and the state’s higher education schools complied with an outline that would trim spending by $55.1. But their real desire is to see a $28.7 million bump, an increase of 2.7 percent.
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The governor said Monday the new teacher evaluation system will require some getting used to but emphasized that the evaluations were “at the heart” of the state’s successful Race to the Top application. Haslam said he’s as yet unprepared to take a position on a bill to make way for vouchers in the state’s largest school systems.
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Gov. Bill Haslam gives bipartisan high marks to Phil Bredesen and Lamar Alexander for their records as governors on education.
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The Tennessee Board of Education has OK’d an overall plan — although more details likely to be added.
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The governor says he doesn’t want to change the state’s pre-kindergarten program, but wants more research into whether, and to what degree, it is working. Earlier this week, fellow Knoxville Republican Bill Dunn questioned Pre-K’s efficacy, calling the statewide program a waste of resources.
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Former Gov. Phil Bredesen said Tennessee’s lax testing standards had misled students into believing they had mastered subjects, speaking about how he tried to address the problem in a CNN series on America’s…
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