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Chamber Board Supports Mayor Dean's Proposed Budget

Thursday, May 10, 2012
Posted by: Marc Hill - Policy
The Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce board of directors has taken a position in support of Nashville Mayor Karl Dean’s proposed city operating budget for 2012-2013, and the accompanying property tax adjustment. The Chamber developed the following questions and answers to provide additional insight into our policy process.

I also encourage our members to review the mayor’s State of Metro ...
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Tags: legislative agenda transit Mayor Karl Dean Metro budget property tax economic development school funding

Chamber Board Supports Mayor Dean's Proposed Budget

Thursday, May 10, 2012
Posted by: Marc Hill - Policy
The Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce board of directors has taken a position in support of Nashville Mayor Karl Dean’s proposed city operating budget for 2012-2013, and the accompanying property tax adjustment. The Chamber developed the following questions and answers to provide additional insight into our policy process.

I also encourage our members to review the mayor’s State of Metro ...
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Category: Policy
Tags: legislative agenda transit Mayor Karl Dean Metro budget property tax economic development school funding

Academy VIP Tour No. 6: Glencliff High School

Thursday, March 22, 2012
Posted by: Marc Hill - Policy
More than 50 community leaders participated in the final Academy VIP Tour of the school year at Glencliff High School on March 14. Increasingly, Metro’s academies are garnering national—and international—recognition. Earlier this month, 60 school district leaders from around the country spent two days in our city learning about Nashville’s academy model, and a team from Nashville has been asked ...
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Category: Education
Tags: Glencliff High School Cheryl Carrier Harold Love Peggy Cooning Jason Powell Gracie Porter education reform Howard Gentry MNPS Ed Kindall Buddy Baker Kent Adams Ron Samuels Chris Harmon Bill Lee Academies of Nashville

Academies of Nashville Get a State Legislative Victory

Friday, March 16, 2012
Posted by: Marc Hill - Policy
The Academies of Nashville is a high school reform model that is improving graduation rates, school attendance and performance on the state’s algebra exam. One of the key elements of the academy model is to create a class schedule that allows teachers of traditional subjects (math, English, science, social studies) to work and plan together with teachers who teach in ...
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Category: Education
Tags: Sen. Joe Haynes Rep. Brenda Gilmore Bruce Opie Tennessee General Assembly Governor Haslam Academies of Nashville

Charter Schools & Report Card: New Chamber Education Videos Posted

Friday, March 09, 2012
Posted by: Marc Hill - Policy
Want to learn more about charter schools from the experts? We’ve posted two highlight clips from the Chamber’s December 2011 Education 2020 speaker series event at Lipscomb University. Click here to see John Danner, the CEO of Palo Alto-based Rocketship Education, talk about his unique charter school model. For a highlight of the panel discussion featuring Tennessee-based charter school pioneers, ...
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Category: Education
Tags: Dr. Jesse Register Lipscomb University Candice McQueen Rocketship Education Mayor Karl Dean Derwin Sisnett Ron Corbin Pam Daly ASD STEM Prep Academy Power Academy Chris Barbic John Danner Tennessee Achievement School District Alan Coverstone Kristin McGraner

Governor Haslam Shares His Pro-business Agenda at Chamber Meeting

Tuesday, March 06, 2012
Posted by: Marc Hill - Policy
Governor Bill Haslam thanked the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce this morning for its focus on improving public education, saying, “If you are going to be the ‘jobs governor,’ you’ve got to be the ‘education governor.’” Haslam told the group of more than 400 business leaders at the annual Outlook Tennessee breakfast that the role of state government is to ...
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Category: Legislative Issues
Tags: inheritance tax Outlook Tennessee jobs Business Voice economic development Governor Haslam

Chamber Announces Nominees for Second Annual Academies of Nashville Awards

Thursday, March 01, 2012
Posted by: Marc Hill - Policy
The Academies of Nashville Awards, sponsored by Altria and Deloitte, are intended to celebrate the success and excellence in Metro Schools’ reform efforts for each of its 12 zoned high schools. A nominating committee composed of leaders from the school district, Chamber, and PENCIL Foundation developed the list of nominees after receiving more than 240 recommendations of high school faculty ...
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Category: Education
Tags: Academies of Nashville Awards Altria Metro Schools Deloitte Jessica Pierucki public education Tom Aaron Academies of Nashville

Chamber’s Charter School Committee Visits Nashville Prep

Friday, January 20, 2012
Posted by: Marc Hill - Policy
The Charter School Support Network, a Chamber committee composed primarily of business leaders who serve on the boards of one of Nashville’s 11 charter schools, met at Nashville Prep on January 19. Founded by Ravi Gupta as a college-preparatory academy, and still in its first year of operation, the charter school serves fifth-grade students, with plans to add one grade ...
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Category: Education
Tags: Ravi Gupta Charter School Support Network Nashville Prep high-performing schools education reform charter schools MNPS Metro Schools public education Alan Coverstone Tennessee State University

View Photos & Video From the 2011 'My Future, My Way' Career Exploration Fair

Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Posted by: Marc Hill - Policy
In late October, 300 business volunteers spent the day at the Nashville Convention Center interacting with nearly 5,000 Metro Schools ninth-graders. Sponsored by Shoney’s Restaurants, the purpose of the event was to get these teens thinking about their future: what type of academy they might choose for the rest of their high school career, what kind of postsecondary institutions they ...
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Category: Education
Tags: Career Exploration Fair MNPS Shoney’s My Future, My Way Career Exploration Fair Academies of Nashville

Chamber Report Card: MNPS Takes a First Step Forward - Time to Pick Up the Pace

Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Posted by: Marc Hill - Policy
The Chamber Education Report Card Committee presented its 2011 report card for Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) today at the Adventure Science Center. In looking back at the 2010-2011 school year, the committee felt MNPS has “taken a first step forward,” by showing broad, if modest, improvement across nearly all academic measures. Co-Chair Ron Corbin added that it was time ...
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Category: Education
Tags: Education Report Card Committee Ron Corbin Pam Daly MNPS
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