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Karen Johnson tells us where Mayor Dean’s next townhall will be:

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MNPS Children First Announces Free Health Fair
Saturday, August 9, from 9:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m., in the K-Mart parking lot located at 2491
Murfreesboro Road, the Antioch and Southeast Nashville community will hold the first

The Tennessean couldn’t seem to find Chamber-backed school board candidate, Cordenus Eddings, but “Raise It High” Karen Johnson tracked her down:

School board member Karen Johnson gets an award from the Nashville Chamber of Commerce:

I apologize for posting this information late to the District 6 community, but it was so well covered in the Media. I was traveling yesterday for work and surprisingly was in upper West Tennessee country (Gibson County Tennessee!) and surprisingly I did not have time to post anything and had to answer questions regarding the recent news coverage on the rezoning vote. Yes, you read right.

Jeff Woods reports from a community meeting at the Rev. Jerry Maynard’s his Southside Community Church on the recent school board vote to rezone Metro Schools.

In a scene that seemed straight out of the civil rights era, the NAACP has just demanded that the school board reconsider its rezoning plan and, in the meantime, take $6 million from its reserve funds and spend it immediately to begin improving Pearl-Cohn schools.

I've largely stayed out of this whole segregation v. neighborhood schools argument going on in the MNPS because I don't have a concrete opinion either way...I can see both sides.

Jeff Woods is calling out the white liberal community for their silence:

The mystery has been solved. Everybody’s been wondering why black school board member Karen Johnson voted with her four white colleagues for rezoning students.