test scores

Money held over concerns about use
By JAIME SARRIO • Staff Writer • September 3, 2008

Metro schools went without millions in federal grants last school year because of a misfire during the application process that eventually led to a shakeup of top-ranked administrators.

How do you pass school choice?

By SUZANNE NORMAND BLACKWOOD sblackwood@tennessean.com 259-8268 • August 1, 2008

New principal takes over at Apollo Middle
As the new principal of Apollo Middle School, Ron Woodard has three main items on his agenda.
"We're hoping to increase student achievement, parental involvement and community support," he said.

By SUZANNE NORMAND BLACKWOOD sblackwood@tennessean.com 259-8268 • August 1, 2008

New principal takes over at Apollo Middle
As the new principal of Apollo Middle School, Ron Woodard has three main items on his agenda.
"We're hoping to increase student achievement, parental involvement and community support," he said.

Predictably, only a week before the election, things are getting a little testy in the school board race between the incumbent Ed Kindall and the Chamber of Commerce-endorsed candidate, Cordenus Eddings.

Kindall supporters say Eddings outraged a grieving family by politicking at a funeral this week.

...I got a job :).

By JAIME SARRIO • Staff Writer(Tennessean.com) • July 15, 2008

The coalition's site reports that "about 17,000 Tennessee K-12 students and the names of several hundred teachers were posted on a personal Web site" in three separate files, which included names, birth dates, gender, test scores and Social Security numbers.

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A-mazing. Honestly, I should probably be pretty irked about this morning, but in the end, it was a relief. It wasn't even a school I'd applied to--I'd just applied to the system, and that's how they got my information.