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New Polling in Tennessee Shows Public Support for Immigration Reform

Thursday, June 13, 2013

Posted by: Marc Hill - Policy

Polling in 39 states, including Tennessee, shows broad public support for comprehensive immigration reform this year. Released by the Partnership for a New American Economy, the poll shows 67 percent of voters across these 39 states supported the immigration reform legislation being debated in the U.S. Senate (S. 744). The Tennessee results were announced by this afternoon at a press ...

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Tags: Tennessee Chamber of Commerce & Industry Nashville Area Hispanic Chamber immigration reform

TSU President Discusses Her 'Critical Hire' with Chamber Committee

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Posted by: Marc Hill - Policy

The Nashville Area of Commerce’s Education Committee met recently with the new president of Tennessee State University, Dr. Glenda Glover, now in her fifth month leading Nashville’s public four-year university. In particular, the committee wanted to hear President Glover’s vision for TSU’s College of Education. In 2012, Metro Schools hired 52 teachers graduating from TSU’s teacher preparation program, nearly 10 ...

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Category: Education

Tags: Tennessee Higher Education Commission THEC TSU teacher preparation programs Glenda Glover Tennessee Board of Education Tennessee State University

Chamber Policy Chief Guest-Teaches at Stratford High School

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Posted by: Marc Hill - Policy

This week I was given the opportunity to teach a class of freshmen at Stratford High School as part of Teach For America’s Teaching As Leadership Week. TFA invited several community leaders to visit one of their corps member’s classes and teach a full lesson about leadership. Because of the Chamber’s extensive support of Metro’s high school redesign, the Academies of Nashville, ...

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Category: Education

Tags: Metro Schools Teach For America Nashville Stratford High School

Chamber and High School Academies Celebrate End of the School Year

Friday, May 10, 2013

Posted by: Marc Hill - Policy

Monday night, more than 300 academy business partners and Metro Schools educators packed Rocketown for the third annual Academies of Nashville Awards. McGavock High School’s Academy of Aviation and Transportation, currently undergoing its review for accreditation from the National Career Academy Coalition, won the coveted “Academy of the Year” award. The awards were made possible by event sponsors Altria and ...

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Category: Education

Tags: Harold Love David Davoudpour Anna Shepherd Academies of Nashville Awards Elissa Kim Jay Steele Jill Speering Cheryl Mayes Steve Turner Karl Dean Steve Glover Jo Ann Brannon Academies of Nashville

Nashville and Tennessee Represented at National School Boards Association Conference

Monday, April 15, 2013

Posted by: Marc Hill - Policy

Last weekend, I was in San Diego with a team from Metro Schools at the National School Boards Association's annual conference. The four-day gathering draws more than 5,000 school board members and administrators from across the country. MNPS Chief Academic Officer Jay Steele, Board members Cheryl Mayes and Anna Shepherd and I led a presentation of the Academies of Nashville ...

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Category: Education

Tags: National School Boards Association Anna Shepherd Metro School Board Common Core Jay Steele Metro Schools Cheryl Mayes Academies of Nashville

President's Budget Endorses Nashville's 'Academies' Approach

Thursday, April 11, 2013

Posted by: Marc Hill - Policy

President Obama unveiled his proposed fiscal year 2014 budget today, and while it is sure to face significant alteration by Congress (assuming Congress is able to make progress in adopting a budget), there are some noteworthy ideas in the area of education. Backing up the president’s focus on pre-K education in his State of the Union speech, his proposed budget ...

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Category: Education

Tags: budget Arne Duncan education reform pre-K Barack Obama higher education Bill Haslam Academies of Nashville

Chamber Asks Feds to Approve a 'Tennessee Plan' for Medicaid Expansion

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Posted by: Marc Hill - Policy

The Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce has sent a letter to U.S. Health & Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius asking her to approve Gov. Haslam’s request to pursue a “Tennessee Plan” for Medicaid expansion. Under the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, the federal government will fund 100 percent of the cost of expanding Medicaid to ...

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Category: Legislative Issues

Tags: Fresh Medicine TennCare Tennesse Medicaid expansion 2013 Governor's Address Bill Haslam Phil Bredesen Kathleen Sebelius

"Rightsizing” the Charter School Conversation: We’re In

Sunday, April 07, 2013

Posted by: Marc Hill - Policy

This week, Metro School Board member Will Pinkston authored a thoughtful opinion piece in the City Paper, in which he asked Nashvillians to agree on three points: charter schools are a valuable part of Nashville’s public school offerings; Metro Schools are, in fact, now improving on year-over-year test results; and that the ongoing feud between the Metro School Board and state policymakers over charter ...

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Category: Education

Tags: Will Pinkston charter schools MNPS

Agreement Reached to Preserve Metro

Friday, March 29, 2013

Posted by: Marc Hill - Policy

On March 8, the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce alerted our members to a state legislative proposal that would unravel Metro government. As amended in a House subcommittee, HB1204/SB1285 would allow the smaller cities within Metropolitan Nashville/Davidson County to expand and duplicate government services. We opposed this legislation, and many of our members communicated this opposition to state ...

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Tags: metropolitan government Davidson County Metro

Medicaid Expansion Makes Business Sense for Tennessee

Sunday, March 24, 2013

Posted by: Marc Hill - Policy

After researching the issue for more than a month, the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce took the step of becoming the first chamber in our state to endorse the expansion of Medicaid in Tennessee in early February. Our analysis looked at the pros and cons of expansion through a business perspective. We found that:

Medicaid expansion would avert a scenario ...

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Tags: Medicaid TennCare medicaid expansion Tennessee Jackson Hewitt Governor Haslam

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