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WCS Legislation Watch
The WCS Legislative Committee (Rick Wimberly-Chair, Susan Curlee, Candy Emerson-absent) met on Friday, February 6. They narrowed down 41...
Feb 8, 2015
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Why are we even talking about vouchers in Williamson County? The $319 million question
We have lots of concerns about vouchers including their unproven record in improving educational outcomes for the kids they supposedly...
Feb 2, 2015
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Vouchers and Williamson County
As we have stated repeatedly, we believe that the way to build and strengthen a world-class public school system is to make sure that...
Jan 23, 2015
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Heard on the Street: Is the board looking for its own lawyer?
We heard from some lawyers in the area that the Williamson County School Board was shopping around for legal representation last week....
Jan 15, 2015
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Area Teacher Salaries
Happy New Year, everybody! We hope you all had some down time over the holidays – time with family and a little time for reflection and...
Jan 5, 2015
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Who works for whom? On lobbying, legislators, WCS and being “like-minded”
Lobbyist, schmobbyist! At the work session Thursday night, the board debated a proposal to spend $15,000 to hire a lobbyist to make sure...
Dec 15, 2014
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Calendar Confusion
According to state law, deliberations and decisions (aka votes) are supposed to happen during public meetings. Not before the meeting or...
Dec 1, 2014
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Textbooks, Part 3: Check out the “experts”
A couple handfuls of textbook activists have successfully changed state law to make sure that non-educators have a greater say on...
Nov 16, 2014
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Textbooks, Part 2: Socialism, Islam, and Pornography
“…an insidious action was at work to brainwash our children to be anti-free market, anti-capitalism, anti-Semitic, anti-Christian, pro...
Nov 13, 2014
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Textbooks, Part 1: Nuts and Bolts
Wake up and smell the textbooks, ladies and gentlemen! Do you think about textbooks every day and twice a day on Sundays? No? We don’t...
Nov 12, 2014
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Project 912 TN Leader Reports on WCS Board
J. Lee Douglas, Project 912 TN Founder and President, was at the School Board retreat Saturday. The following day, he reminded his...
Nov 10, 2014
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Another Version of the Story: Let’s Talk School, October 28
One week ago, there was a Let’s Talk School meeting at Centennial. Both the Franklin Home Page and the Williamson Herald had good...
Nov 4, 2014
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How much did AFP spend to influence WCS board elections? Conservative estimate: $50,000
AFP bragged that it spent $500,000 in Tennessee on Education/Common Core-related fights in the six weeks prior to the August elections....
Oct 31, 2014
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Quick Recap: Let’s Talk School, October 30
The Let’s Talk School event in Fairview was very informative. Board members Beth Burgos, Candy Emerson, Bobby Hullett, PJ Mezera, Ken...
Oct 31, 2014
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Just the facts, Ma’am: The Director of Schools and the Board
There are several major issues that concern us regarding the intentions of the current school board. Among them: vouchers and charter...
Oct 27, 2014
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Guilty!
Guilty! The new WCS board was sworn in on 9/15. Fourteen days later (on 9/29), Susan Curlee filed a records request on several of us WCS...
Oct 23, 2014
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Vouchers are Privatization
We believe that the way to build and strengthen a world-class public school system is to make sure that public schools are adequately...
Oct 20, 2014
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What does a big-money DC-based national right-wing group like Americans for Prosperity want with our
We’d better find out, because it looks like our new school board majority is working for them. Common Core is an opening gambit, folks....
Sep 26, 2014
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Colorado Playbook
Is what is currently happening in Jefferson County CO the future of Williamson County? Jefferson County elected a new school board back...
Sep 24, 2014
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Investigating Parents
We’ve heard that some new School Board members want to investigate parent organizations for alleged political activity. Let us get this...
Sep 21, 2014
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