{"id":285,"date":"2007-01-17T14:46:08","date_gmt":"2007-01-17T19:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=285"},"modified":"2007-01-17T14:46:08","modified_gmt":"2007-01-17T19:46:08","slug":"cities-and-the-bep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=285","title":{"rendered":"Cities and the BEP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I attended an interesting <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Maryville meeting\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailytimes.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070117\/NEWS\/701160324\">meeting<\/a> last night in Maryville; it seems that the cities who support municipal school systems have (finally, in some cases) taken notice of the grave threat to school funding posed by a concerted effort to change the <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"fiscal capacity formula\" href=\"http:\/\/tennessee.gov\/tacir\/Fiscal%20Capacity\/fc_faq.htm\">fiscal capacity formula<\/a>, which drives the local funding requirement portion of the <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"BEP\" href=\"http:\/\/www.state.tn.us\/sbe\/bep.html\">BEP<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Folks traveled a goodly distance &#8212; some from Athens, and a group from Kingsport &#8212; to hear the presentation and to meet other local officials similarly situated.\u00c2\u00a0 Without question, we carry more clout if we&#8217;re all speaking from the same page when we go to Nashville.<\/p>\n<p>While there, I also heard a rumor &#8212; <em>but just a rumor<\/em> &#8212; that <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Rusty Crowe\" href=\"http:\/\/www.legislature.state.tn.us\/senate\/members\/s3.htm\">Sen. Rusty Crowe<\/a> may be named Chair of the Senate Education Committee.\u00c2\u00a0 It was, in fact, Sen. Crowe who invited me to address the Senate Education Committee last year when the TACIR System-Level Prototype was presented to them, after I explained the preceding evening how many millions the school systems in his district would lose under that plan.<\/p>\n<p>We should know by the end of this week who&#8217;s chairing what.\u00c2\u00a0 And yes, Daco, today is Wednesday.\u00c2\u00a0 All day long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I attended an interesting meeting last night in Maryville; it seems that the cities who support municipal school systems have (finally, in some cases) taken notice of the grave threat to school funding posed by a concerted effort to change &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=285\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,3,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}