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Bright & Early: Can’t Win For Losing Edition

22 May 2009 | 9:00 am
Author: Christy Frink

Good morning, Nashville. Governor Phil is none too pleased with a fancy lobbying group called Families USA released a report yesterday that found all sorts of things wrong with CoverTN, our state’s public health insurance program. Among other things, the report claimed that the program is “likely to leave enrollees with high bills and lack [...]

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Bright & Early: Testing, Testing, 1-2-3 Edition

25 February 2009 | 8:57 am
Author: Christy Frink

Good morning, Nashville. There isn’t a whole lot of good news coming out of Metro Nashville Public Schools these days, and we’re afraid the headlines this morning are no exception. We won’t know for sure if they’ve met federal No Child Left Behind benchmarks until standardized testing scores come back in the spring, but real-time [...]

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Happy Hour: Well, That’s One Way To Do It

11 February 2009 | 6:03 pm
Author: Christy Frink

A first-year teacher at a Metro elementary school turned himself in after “realizing it was not an appropriate form of discipline” to tape third graders’ mouths shut or tape kids in their seats using packing tape. Uh, yes? [Tennessean] Nothing like a solid workday without power to make you appreciate the convenience of electricity, right? [...]

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