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Austin-East No Longer on State Takeover List
The state of Tennessee made it official today: Austin-East High School is no longer in danger of being added to the state's "Achievement School District,"...Read More Published 12/05/2011 at 12:06 PM 0 comments -
Name a STEM School!
Despite our skepticism, Knox County Schools actually managed to get a new magnet school up and running in the old L&N building for the start...Read More Published 08/30/2011 at 12:17 PM 0 comments -
Developer Pulls Out of Carter School Project
In a surprise move with unclear ramifications for County Mayor Tim Burchett's efforts to get a new elementary school built in the Carter community, the...Read More Published 08/18/2011 at 1:00 PM 0 comments -
School Board Meeting Gets X-Rated
So last night we attended the exhausting, exhaustive Knox County School Board of Education meeting. This reporter is glad she had a completely thorough, uncontroversial,...Read More Published 03/03/2011 at 12:37 PM 0 comments -
Sex Ed Now to Be Taught by the Health Department?
You know as much as we do. Which is to say, all we know is from the teeny tiny teaser on the KNS website, which...Read More Published 02/25/2011 at 7:37 PM 0 comments -
The Sexy Sex Ed Controversy Hits the Legislature
To the surprise of no one who's been keeping up with this (which is to say, this reporter), there is now legislation to change the state's...Read More Published 02/25/2011 at 12:39 PM 0 comments -
So What IS Planned Parenthood Teaching Your Kids?
One question we here at Metro Pulse had last week, as we were examining the controversy surrounding Planned Parenthood teaching sex education in Knox County...Read More Published 01/31/2011 at 9:40 AM 0 comments -
Sex Ed "Controversy" Getting Steamy
The school system might not be getting a lot of phone calls about it, but apparently last night's meeting of parents who want Planned Parenthood...Read More Published 01/28/2011 at 12:51 PM 0 comments -
Mixed News in Knox County Schools Report Card
There were things for Knox County Schools to celebrate in the State Report Card data released on Friday, and celebrate they did. At a news...Read More Published 01/07/2011 at 4:30 PM 0 comments -
Adventures in Public Finance, Education Edition
How are local governments going to cope in what promises to be a prolonged era of tight budgets, rising demands, and near-pathological resistance to anything...Read More Published 11/29/2010 at 10:42 PM 0 comments
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