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29 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Just going over the bills for tomorrow morning and joining my Democratic colleagues in the “why are we here” sentiment. This special session is costing Tennesseans financially as well as health wise.
We vote on a bill to make school board races partisan tomorrow, only emails I got about it were against it. This isn’t about COVID and this isn’t about improving schools. It’s about using our BOEs and our children for partisan gain. It’s disgusting.
Several members believe this bill was the actual reason they had a special session-the mandates were performance art for a raucous base-they may not be wrong. And they got the taxpayers to pay for a bill they didn’t ask for.
Forget small government and local control, these guys are regulating private biz and removing local control hand over fist. What does the TN GOP even stand for other than hate, greed, and control?

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8 Oct
Well, I’m not sure that qualifies as a huge education announcement from Gov Lee. What we heard today is that he wants yet another BEP study, a tradition that happens to coincide with politicians feeling pressure to invest in students near an election.
If a plan ever materializes, it should be judged on whether it addresses the real funding needs of schools and its per pupil student spending.
But what he talked about today sounds more like changing the way we cut the pie. But the main education funding problem in Tennessee is that the pie just isn’t big enough. And it hasn’t been for years.
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8 Oct
EDUCATION THREAD👇🏼 Rumor is the governor is making a huge education announcement tomorrow morning. Here’s what he should say: Folks, our public schools are underfunded by almost $2 billion a year.
Our teachers earn less today than they did a decade ago. We are second to last in the Southeast for student funding—only ahead of Mississippi. This is unacceptable.
Every year the legislature tinkers around the edges, but we cannot wait another year to do what is right.
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28 Sep
THREAD👇🏼Hello all, hope all is well in your world! I spent much of the day today talking with parents and teachers, folks are nervous about school and safety as some took to social media to make threats and action plans that made parents and school staff nervous.
I think those threats & such are being taken seriously and I hope folks search their better angels and make different choices from what they have said online. If this is really about our kids and what you think is safe for them, then truly think of the kids...and not just yours.
Should adults be taking their grown up political battles to the schoolhouse doors? Should they be sending their kids in with instructions to ignore school rules? Sending the kids in to fight their adult battles? I don't think so myself.
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27 Sep
Word on the street is that some state leaders are just itching to pass some new legislation that will end up getting overturned by the courts. Apparently losing court battles is a fetish for some, stay tuned. #whoknew
Newer word, sanity may prevail, it’s early to say though😉
Newest word is there are likely going to be some unhappy folks.
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26 Sep
Really concerning to me that an anti-mask group just met saying they need to bring Knox County Schools to a halt (to applause) and asked folks to block the entrances to schools with their cars-including not letting school buses in. This is not a group that cares about kids.
It seems that KCS will be closed tomorrow “To give our schools time to prepare and comply with a federal judge's order requiring masks, Knox County Schools will be closed on Monday, Sept. 27, 2021.” See what happens when you create these monsters, you get to deal w/them.
Well sadly, our kids and teachers get to deal with them.
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26 Sep
THREAD👇: OK folks, time to take a deep breath. Let's talk about masks and schools as an East TN federal judge issued an injunction regarding Gov. Lee's banning of a mask mandate on Friday. I'm going to try to relate some facts for folks.
If you refuse to take the action required by a judges injunction, you can be found in contempt of court and fined or imprisoned.
If you think a judge can't rule on an action by the legislative or executive branch--well then, you must have missed that whole part of the CONSTITUTION where the FOUNDING FATHERS proposed a government where power was...
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