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'I Know You Are But What Am I'6 comments

newscoma wrote 1 week ago: An excerpt from the eastside. But nooo. We don’t do that here in Tennessee. Instead we keep the … more »

Tags: Newscoma

New Open Records Law takes effect in Tennessee

redhatrob wrote 3 weeks ago: “Providing information to the public is an essential function of a representative government a … more »

Tags: Tennessee, Tennessee Open Records Law

Rush Limbaugh quotes Rob Shearer

redhatrob wrote 2 months ago: Terribly immodest of me, I know… Click below to hear an excerpt from the Rush Limbaugh show on … more »

Tags: ACT scores, Church Related Schools, Homeschooling, Rob Shearer, Tennessee Department of Education

Public school vs. private school ACT scores3 comments

redhatrob wrote 2 months ago: This is a tale of 54,041 high school diplomas. That’s the number of public high school diploma … more »

Tags: ACT scores, Homeschooling, Public Education, Rob Shearer, Tennessee Department of Education

Harold and Snowflake jump the broom37 comments

skepticalbrotha wrote 2 months ago: Former Tennessee Congressman Harold Ford, Chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council and America … more »

Tags: 2008, Barack Obama, Claire McCaskill, Corporate Whore, DLC, Harold Ford Jr., Obama for President, Patty Murray, political expediency

Homeschool vs. public school diplomas14 comments

redhatrob wrote 2 months ago: The Tennessee Department of Education has recently defended its decision not to recognize homeschool … more »

Tags: Church Related Schools, Gateway Tests, Homeschooling, Public Education, Rob Shearer, Tennessee, Tennessee Department of Education

HB1652 still languishing in the House Calendar & Rules Committee1 comment

redhatrob wrote 2 months ago: Since its favorable passage eight days ago by the House Education Committee, HB1652 (the bill to dir … more »

Tags: Church Related Schools, HB1652, Homeschooling, Rob Shearer, Tennessee Department of Education

Tennessee Department of Education has declared homeschooler's diplomas to be "worthless"4 comments

redhatrob wrote 2 months ago: The Department of Education has so far succeeded in declaring all homeschoolers’ high school d … more »

Tags: Church Related Schools, Homeschooling, Phil Bredesen, Public Education, Tennessee, Tennessee Department of Education

TN House Education Committee passes bill to require state agencies to accept Church-Related School's high school diplomas as valid11 comments

redhatrob wrote 2 months ago: Longest blog post title ever… The bill was HB 1652, and you can read the history of how we got … more »

Tags: Gateway Tests, Homeschooling, Tennessee, Church Related Schools, high school diplomas, Tennessee Legislature

TN Department of Education declares church-related schools' diplomas to be "worthless"5 comments

redhatrob wrote 2 months ago: Kay Brooks has a great post summarizing the story so far: Good enough for UT, Vandy, Harvard... The … more »

Tags: Rob Shearer, Tennessee Legislature

Pre-K advocates in TN are "baffled" by GOP opposition

redhatrob wrote 5 months ago: They shouldn’t be, but they are. That’s the headline in today’s Tennessean - thou … more »

Tags: Diane Black, Phil Bredesen, Pre-K, Public Education, Ron Ramsey

Tennessee Politics

threeca wrote 6 months ago: I can’t wait until the Tennessee state campaigns get fired up! … more »

Launching the Alliance!!1 comment

bluecollarmuse wrote 8 months ago:   Welcome to Tennessee’s ConserVOLiance, the place in the blogosphere where Might and Rig … more »

Tags: Tennessee, State Politics, Local Politics, Conservative Politics, Conservative, The Voliance, Blogging, New Media

Harold Ford Jr, Prince of Tennessee27 comments

skepticalbrotha wrote 9 months ago:   Like an apocalyptic vision, I have been tormented by the frighteningly real prospect that the man … more »

Tags: Al Gore, Barack Obama, Bill Frist, Black Political Corruption, black politics, Black Voters, Corporate Whore, DLC, Federal Indictment

Southern Comfort30 comments

skepticalbrotha wrote 9 months ago: I drink rarely and when I do, wine is usually my drink of choice. If I’m feeling really adve … more »

Tags: Al Wynn, Alabama Senate Race, Artur Davis, Black endorsements, Black Political Corruption, black politics, Black Voters, corporate mammy, Donna Edwards

Another Ford rises, Herenton re-elected15 comments

skepticalbrotha wrote 9 months ago: Another Ford made his mark Thursday night in Memphis as the returns trickled in from the board of e … more »

Tags: Black Mayors, Black Political Corruption, Black Voters, Corporate Whore, Edmund Ford Jr, Edmund Ford Sr., Harold Ford Jr., Harold Ford Sr., Memphis

Nikki Tinker, Corporate Mammy14 comments

skepticalbrotha wrote 10 months ago: Stunningly beautiful, flawlessly dressed, seemingly cosmopolitan and well educated, Pinnacle Airl … more »

Tags: Corporate Whore, DLC, Ed Crump, Harold Ford Jr., Harold Ford Sr., Homophobia, Ida B. Wells, Israel Lobby, Israel/Lebanon conflict

Southern Political Report34 comments

skepticalbrotha wrote 11 months ago: Complicating Harold Ford, Jr’s nascent bid for the Tennesse Governor’s mansion is the fa … more »

Tags: Black Political Corruption, black politics, Black Voters, Harold Ford Jr., Jeff Sessions, John Ford, John Neely Kennedy, Louisiana Politics, Mary Landrieu

Is Sen. Jamie Woodson's Conservatism only skin-deep?

VOJ wrote 11 months ago:   A short time back in July, I wrote about a press release that Sen. Jamie’s Woodson’ … more »

Tags: Blogroll, Tennessee Legislature, Abortion, Senate


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