This was a wild week for the Achievement School District here in Memphis. Operators pulled out, parents and students protested, and the school board took steps to dissociate themselves from the ASD by ending co-location agreements and even attempted to pass…
“Where will my kid go next year?” This was the question at the core of the ASD and Yes Prep’s third community forum at Airways Middle tonight. I had the chance to attend the entire forum and speak with several…
Choice. It’s a sacred word in our society. We demand the right to choose for ourselves and education is no different. We demand the right to choose our own education, as well as that of our children. In business, choice…
If the last few days are any indication, Memphis is close to an open revolt against the Achievement School District. It doesn’t take much more than a cursory look at the news since the announcement of the ASD’s nine new…
TNEdReport and the Commercial Appeal reported yesterday on the Shelby County School Board’s resolution asking the state for $99.5 million in additional funding to meet the state’s BEP 2.0 requirements. From the TNEdReport: The board is asking the state to…
We idealize the teacher advocate. The mild-mannered professional that works tirelessly during the day to impart knowledge and wisdom to young minds and who then dons the superhero costume at night to go out and battle in the great policy…
Key policy makers have been hinting for weeks that we will be comprehensively reviewing Common Core in Tennessee to allow the public to provide input on the standards. This morning, Governor Haslam’s office released two documents that outlined his plan…
The ASD selected 9 new schools to be taken over this past week in Memphis. From the commercial appeal, those schools include: Wooddale Middle, Raleigh-Egypt High and South Side Middle, which have already been assigned to charter schools. Nine others — Florida-Kansas…
I wrote a piece last week about how Governor Haslam’s new stance on Common Core might actually be a tactic to save the core here in Tennessee. Given the Governor’s previous support for the core and the way in which…
What is a neighborhood school? That is the question raised by Aspire Public Schools, the state-run Achievement School District (ASD), and the case of Coleman Elementary School. As reported by the Commercial Appeal, parents tried unsuccessfully to enroll their children…
