Who’s to blame when funding gets cut locally for education? I’ll give you a hint: more often than not it isn’t because of local governments.
School Finance 
Local Funding Alternatives for K-12 Education
When Governor Haslam announced this week that he plans to eliminate his proposed 2 percent salary increase for Tennessee Teachers, he didn’t just leave educators out in the cold. He’s now left counties and school districts across the state with… Read More ›
Councilman Harris Calls for a Schools Litigation Fund
This past week Councilman Harris issued a resolution that would require the city to pay its debt to to Shelby County Schools of $57.5 million. From the resolution: NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED the Memphis City Council respectfully requests that… Read More ›
Guest Post from Councilman Lee Harris: The City Should End Litigation, Pay Its Debt to SCS
Since 2008, the City of Memphis and Memphis City Schools (now Shelby County Schools) have wrangled inside and outside of courtrooms over whether the City owes $57.5 million to the schools system. Although the City lost the initial court cases,… Read More ›
TN Students Graduate with Low Debt: Edlinks 10/2
Your edlinks for Wednesday, October 2nd: Commercial Appeal: Jane Roberts confirms that schools and colleges shouldn’t experience much impact from the government shutdown. “Right now, nobody is panicking, but there certainly are question marks if this continues on for weeks… Read More ›
Commission Appoints District 6 Replacement: EdLinks 9/9
Lots of long term news that could impact our future here in Shelby County, from school board appointments to charter expansions. When you’re done reading, head back to the home page and click on the “follow blog via email” button… Read More ›
Lets Put Our Money Where Our Mouth Is
Tennessee has been hailed a flagship for education reform by everyone from Arne Duncan to Bill Gates. And on the surface at least, we should be. We won the first round of race to the top. We have a new… Read More ›
Hostility to Charters in Nashville: Edlinks 9/3
Your edlinks for Tuesday, September 3rd: Nashville Charters: protests against charter schools runs into a backlash from supporters of high-performing charters. The crux of the debate: She [Rebecca Lieberman, vice president of external affairs for the Tennessee Charter School Center] pointed… Read More ›
Tennessee Gets a D in Transparency: Edlinks 8/28
Slow few days for news on the education policy front. Here are some highlights: Cato institute: The Cato institute gives Tennessee a “D” in school funding transparency. From the article: While Tennessee has years of data on per-pupil costs, it… Read More ›
Who’s Running Our Schools: Profiles of the Superintendent’s Cabinet
With the new Shelby County Schools cabinet’s salaries being released last week Thursday, we thought it might be interesting to take a closer look at who is running our schools. I couldn’t find any good information on CFO Pamela Anstey… Read More ›
