Sumner County School Board

SCHOOL BOARD CHAIRMAN TO SPEAK TO HENDERSONVILLE LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS
Mike Fussell, Sumner County School Board chairperson, will be the guest speaker at the Hendersonville League of Women Voters. The meeting will be held Monday, March 9 at 7 p.m., in the Hendersonville Hospital Conference Room. Mr. Fussell will discuss major policy and construction issues facing the Board, with a question and answer period to follow. The public is encouraged to attend. The league is a nonpartisan political organization that seeks to provide the public with information on political candidates and public issues.

STAND FOR CHILDREN SEEKS TO MOVE TENNESSEE SCHOOLS FORWARD
[I received this email yesterday from Andy Spears and am passing it along as a courtesy – Michael]

Over 60 Stand for Children members and supporters converged on the Capitol last night to attend a Senate session and engage legislators in dialogue about moving Tennessee schools forward. The meeting focused on Tennessee's urgent need for reform in public education and Stand for Children's agenda to meet that need. Continued expansion of the Tennessee's high quality, voluntary Pre-K program was clearly a priority of Stand members, though legislators attending were cautious (get the full story here). Full funding of the BEP formula and the importance of BEP 2.0, and improving all schools by improving teacher and principal quality were also on the agenda.

Please take a moment to thank the legislators who attended and urge them to take bold action this legislative session to move our schools forward. Ask them to keep all 934 pre-K classrooms, fully fund the BEP, and support items like HB 1171/SB 1186 to improve teacher quality.*

The time is now to move our schools forward. Thanks for lending your voice to our movement!

Andy Spears
Director of Policy and Outreach, Stand for Children

SUMNER COUNTY SCHOOLS IN THE NEWS
Anger Erupts at School Board Meeting (The Gallatin News, Feb 19, 2009)
Holt asks for 3% schools budget cut (Hendersonville Star-News, Feb 20, 2009)
Knox Doss name change could top $75K (Gallatin News-Examiner, Feb 20, 2009)
Teachers Contract Still Under Negotiation (The Gallatin News, Feb 26, 2009)
The next regularly scheduled meeting of the Sumner County Board of Education will be held 6:00 p.m. on March 17. The meeting will be in the Board Meeting Room of the Sumner County Schools District Office, 695 E. Main Street in Gallatin. This meeting is open to the public.

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