IT WAS ALL JUST A DREAM“You’re nothing more than a clever prostitute. You accepted the conditions in which you found yourself and you triumphed.” ― E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime Growing up, the most popular show in the country was “Dallas”. For those of you too young to remember, “Dallas” was a nighttime soap centered on a Texas oil family and their many machinations. Each season ended with a cliffhanger, with the intent of h
WHOSE ZOOMING WHO?“You’ll never decide what you want until you’ve decided who you are.” ― Noël Coward Who’s in charge of education policy in Tennessee? It seems like a pretty straightforward question, right? Those with a passing knowledge might answer that it’s the General Assembly who set’s policy. Those with a little deeper knowledge might elaborate more by saying that the General Assembly expresses their priori
WHAT’S A SWEETHEART LIKE YOU, DOING IN A PLACE LIKE THIS?“Steal a little and they throw you in jail, steal a lot and they make you king.” – Bob Dylan “We got a lot of kings out here.” – TC Weber I’ve spent a lot of time this week trying to wrap my head around the relationship between money and public education. On one hand, schools are perpetually underfunded. In Tennessee, state-level of funding is determined through a formula referred to as the BEP.
RE-IMAGINATION, OR JUST REBRANDING“Once I called Miami City Hall a “bribe factory,” and another time described Tallahassee as a “festival of whores.” Too subtle? Possibly.” – Carl Hiaasen An interesting event occurred Last Friday, MNPS announced its new literacy
