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Strengths and Weaknesses

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Posted on June 4, 2008 - 7:48am at The Crone Speaks
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Who says that evolution isn’t a continuing phenomena? Now, creationists, trying to cut the teaching of evolution off at the knees, are evolving once again.

Diploma discussion

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Posted on May 14, 2008 - 12:12pm at Kay Brooks
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Pot meet Kettle

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Posted on May 12, 2008 - 12:48pm at Kay Brooks
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Politics, Public and Private

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Posted on May 12, 2008 - 9:20am at Pith In The Wind
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Information please

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Posted on May 7, 2008 - 1:00pm at Kay Brooks
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I'm waiting for the House Calendar and Rules Committee to meet so I can see how they handle HB1652 regarding Category IV diplomas. So many of the same people who voted against it in the House Education Committee are also on the Calendar and Rules Committee that you have to wonder if they'll let it move forward.

Charter School Chain Of Command

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Posted on May 6, 2008 - 7:25am at Post Politics
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TN House Education Committee passes bill to require state agencies to accept Church-Related School’s high school diplomas as val

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Posted on May 5, 2008 - 8:24pm at The Tennessee ConserVOLiance
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Longest blog post title ever…

The bill was HB 1652, and you can read the history of how we got here in an earlier post.

TN Department of Education declares church-related schools’ diplomas to be “worthless”

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Posted on May 5, 2008 - 11:32am at The Tennessee ConserVOLiance
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Kay Brooks has a great post summarizing the story so far: Good enough for UT, Vandy, Harvard...

The Service Of Their Fathers

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Posted on April 23, 2008 - 5:17pm at Post Politics
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An interesting press release from the Lamar Alexander people today. The Senator has progressed in his work towards a new GI Bill and one of the most interesting aspects of his new proposal is the ability to transfer the benefit to a loved one.

Dropouts would be ineligible for driver license until 21

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Posted on March 20, 2008 - 10:43am at SB District 6
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This article was just released on the wire yesterday and this is a step in the right direction.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — People who don't have high school diplomas or GEDs wouldn't be able to get driver licenses until the age of 21 under a proposal advancing in the Legislature.

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