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VIDEO: Scandal-Plagued Rutherford County Mayor Bill Ketron Lashes Out At County Commissioner
December 5, 2019 /0 Comments/in Middle TN, State, Topics, Videos /by Staff
Rutherford County Mayor Bill Ketron and his family have been buried by scandal after scandal lately.
Watch him lash out (BELOW) at County Commissioner Robert Stevens who made a motion to ask Ketron to step aside.
Stevens has suggested starting an ouster suit. 10 citizens are needed. Rutherford county citizens should contact their county commissioners and support a leave of absence for the mayor. Contact info here.
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Commish Rolfe Points Finger At Gov. Lee & Mcwhorter For Vouchers Slush Fund
December 2, 2019 /0 Comments/in Education, State, Topics, Videos /by Staff
Recently we learned a $4 MILLION line item found its way into the budget, seemingly intended for grant projects in rural communities to grease the skids for Governor Lee's public school-harming vouchers, which would steer public money to private schools.
The legislation may have been the brainchild of Speaker Glen Casada, who has since stepped down in disgrace, but it clearly also has the fingerprints of Governor Lee and his Finance Dept. chief Stuart Mcwhorter all over it.
There have been reports that 60 specific projects were promised to rural legislators to get their votes for the bill, which barely passed the house, but Department of Economic and Community Development Commissioner Bob Rolfe says he has seen no such list, and points the finger SQUARELY at Lee and Mcwhorter.
WATCH BELOW as Rolfe says "WE DID NOT PROPOSE THAT", distancing himself from the money at the budget hearing last week. (Rep. Martin Daniel has said there will be no investigation into this. Shocker!)
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TN AG Commish Tells The Truth: Trump's Trade War Is Killing Our Farmers
November 27, 2019 /0 Comments/in State, Topics, Videos /by Staff
Watch TN's Dept. of Ag Commissioner Dr. Charlie Hatcher tell the truth about Trump's Trade War decimating TN's farmers.
TN has been the hardest hit state by the Trade War by far.
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REPORT: Tennessee Gets An "F" In School Funding
November 12, 2019 /0 Comments/in Education, State, Topics /by Staff
This post was first seen on the Tennessee Education Report. For more on education politics and policy in Tennessee, follow @TNEdReport
That's the grade Tennessee gets from the Education Law Center's latest report on school funding in the United States. To be clear, Tennessee earned an F in both funding level and funding effort. We earned a C in distribution of the paltry sum our state dedicates to schools.
Here's how Education Law Center defines those terms:
Funding Level – the cost-adjusted, per-pupil revenue from state and local sources
Funding Distribution – the extent to which additional funds are distributed to school districts with high levels of student poverty
Funding Effort – the level of investment in K-12 public education as a percentage of state wealth (GDP) allocated to maintain and support the state school system
The report notes that Tennessee is 43rd in the nation in overall funding level and 47th in effort. The effort category is of particular interest because it indicates that Tennessee has significant room for improvement in terms of funding level. That is, there are untapped resources Tennessee is NOT using to fund schools.
Shorter: Funding schools is NOT a key policy priority in Tennessee.
Additional evidence for this can be found in graphics shared by Think Tennessee earlier this year:
Tennessee is (and has been) at or near the bottom in school funding and even in funding effort. That's not changing. Instead, Governor Lee and his policy acolytes are diverting education dollars to voucher schemes and charter schools.
For more on education politics and policy in Tennessee, follow @TNEdReport
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