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Federal education officials respond to Williamson County Schools

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Posted on July 16, 2008 - 6:31am at Truman's Take
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Williamson's Breach "MAY" COST US 8 MILLION

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Posted on July 15, 2008 - 11:36am at Truman's Take
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Williamson county resident's better hope that an election year may impede the enforcement of Federal penalties against our school system's Student Privacy violation OR we better get out our check books for higher property taxes.

An Additional Economic Stimulus Check For State Employees

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Posted on May 22, 2008 - 12:20pm at Post Politics
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Katie Allison Granju reporting:

Someone who has read the new state budget more closely than I have informs that it funds a $400 one-time bonus for state employees, teachers and higher education officials. It will be paid in October.

TN State Education Board Fails Research Test …

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Posted on May 22, 2008 - 7:22am at Blue Collar Muse
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[Editors Update and RePost: Thanks to Rob Shearer at Red Hat Rob and Warner Todd Huston, this story has received national attention.

TN State Education Board Fails Research Test …

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Posted on May 19, 2008 - 7:22am at Blue Collar Muse
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Recently, the Tennessee State Board of Education ruled diplomas issued to home-schooled students from religious based schools were invalid as proof of the successful completion of High School should it be presented for employment purposes for a job for which state law requires a diploma. You read that right.

Homeschool vs. public school diplomas

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Posted on May 17, 2008 - 12:02am at The Tennessee ConserVOLiance
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The Tennessee Department of Education has recently defended its decision not to recognize homeschool diplomas with the assertion that because they were prohibited from having anything to do with the selection of a curriculum, teachers, or textbooks in the church-related schools which “umbrella” homeschoolers they had no way to tell what a homeschool diploma represented.

Sheriff candidates tackle gang problems

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Posted on May 5, 2008 - 5:58am at Truman's Take
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Revolving doors

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Posted on April 18, 2008 - 12:00pm at Kay Brooks
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FAA officials often are former execs of the airlines they now regulate.

Education officials are often former employees of the schools they now regulate.

Fifth year of failing grades may await Metro

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Posted on March 1, 2008 - 3:59pm at Vivian Wilhoite District 29
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Schools audit identifies nagging problem areasBy JAIME SARRIO • Staff Writer (Tennessean) • March 1, 2008

It will be at least another school year before Metro Schools is able to meet state goals under No Child Left Behind, education officials said Friday.

"Merely a theory"

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Posted on February 20, 2008 - 5:24pm at Sense of Events
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Florida education officials show they are uninformed about what "theory" means in science.

"Florida will teach evolution but only as theory":

TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Reuters) - Florida education officials voted on Tuesday to add evolution to required course work in public schools but only after a last-minute change depicting Charles Darwin's seminal work as merely a theory.

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