urban districts

By JAIME SARRIO, Staff Writer, The Tennessean

Some of Nashville's hardest-to-educate students are taught by the district's least-experienced, lowest-paid teachers, an inequity education leaders have struggled for years to address.

Central Office should be better aligned and streamlined to be a support to the classrooms/schools. Everyone is committed to working together to move our system forward and to increase academic achievement among all subgroups.
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Two Tennessee Congressmen, a Republican and a Democrat, defend the practice of earmarking some deride as pork:

Whereas the conventional wisdom had long placed the graduation rate around 85 percent, a growing consensus has emerged that only about seven in 10 students are actually successfully finishing high school.

Dennis Kucinich demands a vote recount, because of the disparity of actual counted votes in the rural areas of New Hampshire (where Obama won, as polls suggested he would) and the more populous urban areas (where Hillary won, in spite of the polls that said she wouldn't). The difference in the two areas?

Voting machines. The rural areas were hand-counted; the urban districts used a mix of