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Nashville Schools Release 2005-2006 Data and Makes Plans for the 2006-2007 School Year
Nashville Schools Did Well Academically in 2005-2006
Nashville Schools have made a lot of progress in the 2005-2006 school year. The Nashville Schools this school year has, in several key areas, had a higher percentage of students meet the required levels of proficiency as determined by the No Child Left Behind Act. This school eighty-six percent of kindergarten to eighth grade students are now proficient or advanced in reading as compared to the required target of eighty-three percent set by the No Child Left Behind Act. Among high school students, overall, sixty-nine percent scored proficient or advanced on the Algebra Gateway test on their first try. The No Child Left Behind Act sets a target of seventy-five percent. Even though this is below the target it is higher than the pervious year’s results. In mathematics students in kindergarten to eighth grade now ranked as proficient or advanced rose to eighty-one percent. This surpasses the target set by the No Child Left Behind Act of seventy-nine percent.
Nashville Schools Aim to Catch Up with the State Average
Nashville School’s scores are slightly below the Tennessee State average, but have made definite improvement in the school district’s students’ standings. The Tennessee Department of Education has increased the expected performance of students in three or four categories. Low-income students in the Nashville Schools made academic gains. Despite the higher percentage of low-income students in the Nashville Schools, our academic gains are equal to the improvement in more affluent school systems. In an effort to continue the gains made by the urban schools in the Nashville Schools, every Nashville middle school offers high-school-level classes for credit. Students can earn up to five credits before they enter high school. The District’s ACT scores have continued to rise over the last five years. Tennessee Department of Education’s school district rating system rates this progress as “significantly above average.”
The Financial Status of Nashville Schools in 2005-2006
Nashville Schools spent an average of $8,540 per pupil for 70,569 students in grades K-12. This compares well to other school district spending around the country. The National Center of Education Statistics, a service of the U.S. Department of Education allows for comparison of school districts around the country on all manner of factors. The National Center of Education Statistics’ “peer search” automatically chooses nine school districts across the country that match Nashville School’s demographics. Those districts include: Albuquerque, NM; Alief, TX (near Houston), Austin, TX; Omaha, NE; Portland, OR; San Francisco, CA; Tucson, AZ; and Wichita, KS. The spending was inline with these school districts. In 2002-03 school year Nashville Schools spent almost exactly the same per-pupil dollars as our peer school districts -and slightly less than the national average.
The Nashville School District Education Board’s plan for the 2006-07 budget will include: A 2% raise for all staff; a more competitive starting salary for teachers; a new call-home phone system to alert parents to unexplained student absences and inclement weather; expansion of the AVID program to all zoned high schools to prepare students to graduate on time with the necessary skills to attend college; opening one new school and moving students at eight sites where renovation is beginning or completed.
About the Author
Stacy Andell is a staff writer for Schools K-12, providing free, in-depth reports on all U.S. public and private K-12 schools. Stacy has a nose for research and writes stimulating news and views on school issues. For more on Nashville schools visit http://www.schoolsk-12.com/Tennessee/Nashville/index.html
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Will Tennessee court systems make me change my childs last name?
I am a single mother to my 8 month old son. The father decided the relationship wasn’t for him 4 days after I told him I was pregnant. The father did not want to sign the birth certificate, he wanted a paternity test. We have already made a parenting plan (through mediation), child support is set and a gradual visitation plan was made since my son is so young. Once it becomes regular visitation at 1 year of age (everyother weekend) the father will have my son 80 days out of a year. I decided to give my son my last name. The father now has informed me he has went back to his lawyer and he is going to change my sons last name to his and my name will be no where. Would a judge make a ruling in the fathers favor? Or allow my son to carry my last name? I don’t see any benefit in changing a childs last name to a fathers they do not live with.
usually the child recieves the fathers last name. sometimes a judge can order a name change if it is in the best interest of the child. as far as your last name, you can always make a request that the childs name include both such as Smith-Jones or whatever.
personally i think it is good for the child. i did the same exact thing but i willingly signed for the name change because there is no harm in letting the child have his/her fathers last name
How about giving tax credits to pay for your own health insurance, instead of creating one new program?
I say, seriously cut back Medicaid and SCHIPP to cover just the ‘uninsurable’ (such as kids with life-long, severe congenital birth defects) or for ‘emergency insurance’ with set time limits on how long you can be one the program (like welfare). The ‘poor’ , and the rest of us, could use the tax credit to buy the insurance of their choosing. Imagine, in Tennessee alone, 75% of kids on SCHIPP have parents working at WalMart. If they got a tax deduction, they could buy the Wal Mart policy. This would seriously reduce the size of government programs. The IRS is already there, and there wouldn’t be 100,000 pages of regulations on how to administer the tax deduction. (unlike how to administer SCHIPP). Of course, the deduction would be income-based. I think this would seriously cost less than Obama’s plan. What do you think?
Unfortunately, the Brigade is in charge and they are so thrilled with the Obama plan that nothing can derail it unless we kick out the Brigade idiots in 2010. But seems to be too many supporters of the brigade among voters for that to happen so…………we are screwed!!
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