{"id":280,"date":"2007-01-13T08:23:49","date_gmt":"2007-01-13T13:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=280"},"modified":"2007-01-13T08:24:28","modified_gmt":"2007-01-13T13:24:28","slug":"house-ed-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=280","title":{"rendered":"House Ed Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tennessee House Speaker Jimmy Naifeh announced his committee appointments on Thursday, yielding a similar &#8220;no surprise&#8221; composition as in the past.  Of the 18-member committee:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>6 represent Shelby Co.\/Memphis<\/li>\n<li>11 represent the four Metro areas (Memphis, Nashville, Chattanooga, Knoxville)<\/li>\n<li>11 represent <em>only<\/em> school systems that would gain under the TACIR funding prototype (67% of school systems lose funding under that plan)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Four others represent mixed districts, where some school systems would gain while others lose.  John Mark Windle is one of those, where Fentress and Overton counties would gain funding, while Morgan County would lose.  It&#8217;s tough to know how a legislator in that position would tend to vote &#8212; does it depend on how many votes are in the winning counties versus the losing, or the legislator&#8217;s own philosophy about education funding, or whether it&#8217;s a net gain overall?  Or maybe something else?<\/p>\n<p>The Committee Members are: (<em>newly-elected reps in italics<\/em>)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Les Winningham (D-Huntsville), Chair<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\" \/><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\">Tommie Brown (D-Chattanooga), Vice Chair; <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\">Joe<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\"> Towns<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\"> (D-Memphis), Secretary; <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\">Barbara Cooper (D-Memphis); <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\">John Hood (D-Murfreesboro); <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\">Ulysses Jones (D-Memphis); <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\">Mark Maddox (D-Dresden);   <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\">Mike McDonald (D-Portland);          <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana\" \/><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\">Larry Turner (D-Memphis); <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\">John Mark Windle (D-Livingston);<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\">Harry Brooks (R-Knoxville); <\/span><\/li>\n<li><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\">Jim Coley (R-Bartlett);<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana\" \/><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\">Dolores Gresham (R-Somerville); <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\">Beth Harwell (R-Nashville); <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\">Phillip Johnson (R-Pegram); <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana\" \/><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\"><em>Ron Lollar (R-Bartlett);<\/em>      <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\">Gerald McCormick (R-Chattanooga);<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\">Richard Montgomery (R-Seymour).  <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Any plan that takes from some districts to give to others is a bad plan.  While it may be necessary to provide additional state funding to some areas based on the local tax base or special needs, Tennessee is not a state that over-funds <em>any<\/em> school system.  If we are to improve, funding must improve overall.<\/p>\n<p>This House committee doesn&#8217;t look like one that will do so, though I hope I am wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennessee House Speaker Jimmy Naifeh announced his committee appointments on Thursday, yielding a similar &#8220;no surprise&#8221; composition as in the past. 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