{"id":227,"date":"2006-12-01T02:17:09","date_gmt":"2006-12-01T06:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=227"},"modified":"2006-12-01T02:17:09","modified_gmt":"2006-12-01T06:17:09","slug":"education-news-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=227","title":{"rendered":"Education news today"},"content":{"rendered":"

KnoxNews reports<\/a> that Farragut folks are concerned because they’re afraid that too many students will be zoned out of their overcrowded school and into the new Hardin Valley High School.<\/p>\n

Farragut High administrators fear that electives like the chorus, as well as honors and Advanced Placement classes and sections, may disappear should many students be zoned to the new Hardin Valley High School.<\/p>\n

“When you cut too low of sections and (teachers) can’t teach other things, you start looking at cutting positions,” said Farragut High Principal Michael Reynolds. “The course selections have taken 20 years to grow, and for some teachers, that’s their entire career invested in this. If we cut courses, it’ll be hard to grow them back.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jacket, I think, has often made the point that smaller high schools (just a few hundred students) are better.\u00c2\u00a0 A smaller student body may make for more personalized instruction, but it does definitely cut into the course offerings.<\/p>\n

Still, it seems that being around 1,500 students — even 1,400 — would yield a workable number to keep the AP curriculum.\u00c2\u00a0 After all, Farragut is a fairly homogeneous community: mostly upper-income, mostly white, mostly English speaking… if Oak Ridge (with a more diverse student population) can maintain a broad range of AP classes with a student population of 1,542, I would think that Farragut could as well.<\/p>\n

* * * * *<\/p>\n

From this morning’s paper<\/a>, it’s evident that the big-city mayors are still leaning on the Governor to hurry up and do something about education funding.\u00c2\u00a0 I concur that we need to do something, but unfortunately, the four mayors seem to be pushing for a solution that would help their cities at the expense of others.<\/p>\n

I had to smile at the Gov.’s response though:<\/p>\n

The governor said he has told the mayors to “just cool your jets a little bit, we’re going to tackle this issue.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So long as he tackles it fairly, and devises a solution that hurts NO ONE.\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong> In a state that’s at 90% of the nation’s per-capita income but only spends 76% of the national average per pupil on education… well, we have our priorities out of order.<\/p>\n

This powerpoint<\/a> from Matt Murray at UT’s Center for Business and Economic Research is worth the read.\u00c2\u00a0 (Right-click the link and select “save link as.”)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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