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Guard Your Daughters

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Posted on June 24, 2008 - 8:30am at Post Politics
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At least on Metro parent is concerned that the school rezoning proposal which would see a phasing out of the busing of children across Nashville for the purposes of diversity worries that her child’s presence in a decidedly less diverse, black school may be a danger to her child:

Their 'special' frame of reference

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Posted on June 5, 2008 - 6:10pm at Kay Brooks
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Jay Greene's got a post up now on his blog regarding special education. About halfway in though he makes five great observations.

Standards Of Practice

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Posted on May 26, 2008 - 10:19am at Post Politics
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Rep. Stacey Campfield points out that Governor Phil Bredesen’s veto of a bill exempting Mennonite schools from fire codes in a symptom of a far larger problem:

Mennonites don't vote

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Posted on May 24, 2008 - 10:43am at Camp4u
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Some people are wondering why this happened..

Nashville needs to deal with loitering kids, mayor says

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Posted on March 13, 2008 - 4:43pm at Vivian Wilhoite District 29
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By Jaime Sarrio • Staff Writer (Tennessean) • March 13, 2008

Local leaders say Nashville needs a truancy/loitering center to deal with the school attendance problem, and Mayor Karl Dean is all for it.

No deje la puerta golpearle en la salida, Pedro

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Posted on January 19, 2008 - 7:27pm at Salem's Lots
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Don’t go away mad, Pedro…just go away.

Former Metro School Director, Pedro Garcia, has finally BEEN schooled, and is leaving Nashville, and probably heading west. Garcia made little effort to ingratiate himself with teachers and most school leaders. His dictatorial management style and his penchant for punishing principals who didn’t toe the line of Pedro didn’t prove expedient in either test score imp

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