lottery money

The KNS did a story on the possible tuition increases at UT Knoxville. I have said in the past that when you want something you need to reward it and make (or keep) it cheap to increase demand.

This is starting to follow the same pattern that happened last year. We waited until the last second to get a plan together and ended up doing nothing.

Here are some of the things rumored to be happening regarding state education funding for this year.

No BEP growth.

No Pre K expansion.

No teacher raises.

House bill 9 (money for school improvements based on the number of kids in the school)looks good for passage as does the energy efficiency loan/match program.

It seems some members of our our esteemed Tennessee legislature want to pay students for good grades. From what I read, similar programs in other states appear to work. I have a problem with this for a few reasons:

From Phil's own mouth

Funding is important. But my proposal is about more than just new revenue for schools. “Schools First” is also about raising standards and expectations throughout our education system – particularly in our high schools and colleges.

I haven’t really blogged about politics in a while, but.. Recently, my friend Nick received a press release from Bill Hobbs about the lottery. Knowing my history of disagreement with hobbs, he asked me what I thought about it. Rather than just respond via e-mail I figured I’d blog about it here. This is gonna be brief, since I don’t really find the lottery to be that complicated an issue.

The Gov is starting to tell what he wants to do in the new year. No real shock. Expand the baby sitting/Pre K program, Lower standards for the lottery scholarship. If he sticks to this two point plan the big fight could be with himself.

The Democrats are looking to make the lottery scholarship adjustments the big wedge issue of the year. While the adjustments will take some time to work through, I don't think it really is that big of an issue or that it will be that partisan of an issue. Some will want to lower the st

From the friends of your State GOP .....