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• Let’s talk Education Facts

  By TC Weber on March 17, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  “…It’s a fairly rudimentary exercise to be frank with you…Revenue follows the student to charter schools. Fixed costs do not follow the student proportionately. So therefore, the more revenue loss you get, the fixed cost base stays the same. There’s… Read More ›

• Taking Care of our Teachers

  By TC Weber on March 12, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  Last week, my wife’s dear friend and her husband welcomed their first child into the world. It was not an easy pregnancy, and so the arrival of a healthy baby brought as much relief as joy.  This new arrival made me… Read More ›

• Bedtime for Reform

  By TC Weber on March 3, 2015 • ( 8 )

  

  I love my children dearly but I am no fan of bedtime. Things at your house may be a little different, but at my house, it’s like standing behind a jet plane. The kids are going a million miles a… Read More ›

• Time to End the ASD Fiasco

  By TC Weber on February 23, 2015 • ( 4 )

  

  Filing a Freedom of Information Act(FOI) or Open Records request, as it sometimes referred to, is always an interesting proposition. Over the last several years, I’ve filed several and to be honest, most have been worthless. Sometimes depending on who… Read More ›

• Keeping it in Perspective.

  By TC Weber on February 18, 2015 • ( 4 )

  

  This week Metro Nashville School Board Member Jill Speering wrote a Facebook post that started with the following question: At last week’s meeting, an MNPS Board member suggested that there are 35,00o seats in Metro Schools that lack “quality” so… Read More ›

• The Charter Conversation takes a page out of Edward Lear

  By TC Weber on February 16, 2015 • ( 4 )

  

  It’s been a couple weeks since I’ve written anything. There has been plenty on my mind, but I’ve got a full time job and parenting is a full time job and my wife would like a little attention as well,… Read More ›

• Are we funding a School District or a PR Firm?

  By TC Weber on February 4, 2015 • ( 4 )

  

  This week I got the results back from a open records records request I made with the state of Tennessee’s Achievement School District. It’s taken a while for me to fully digest them. The Tennessee Achievement School District was created… Read More ›

• Is there really a point to it all?

  By TC Weber on January 25, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  “Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?” — T.S. Eliot That quote by Eliot has been resonating lately with me. I find myself reading about and looking at all… Read More ›

• Teacher Power!

  By TC Weber on January 19, 2015 • ( 6 )

  

  Last night my wife and I were having one of those rare after dinner conversations. We have a four year old and a five year old, so when I say rare, I do mean rare. The topic of the conversation… Read More ›

• Please abolish the term “turn around”

  By TC Weber on January 13, 2015 • ( 5 )

  

  Here we go again. Last year Metro Nashville Public Schools(MNPS) found out that they had fifteen schools that were classified as priority schools by the state of Tennessee.  A priority school is a school ranked in the bottom 5% of the state… Read More ›