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Chamber Board Supports Mayor Dean's Proposed Budget

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 ...

Chamber Board Supports Mayor Dean's Proposed Budget

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 ...

Academy VIP Tour No. 6: Glencliff High School

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 ...

Academies of Nashville Get a State Legislative Victory

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 ...

Charter Schools & Report Card: New Chamber Education Videos Posted

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, ...

Governor Haslam Shares His Pro-business Agenda at Chamber Meeting

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 ...

Chamber Announces Nominees for Second Annual Academies of Nashville Awards

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 ...

Chamber’s Charter School Committee Visits Nashville Prep

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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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