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Feb 12 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Interesting, these folks are hiring for a Charter School that Knox County Schools hasn’t seen an application for according to a Knox BOE member. What sort of shenanigans are team PennyLee up to with this one? It’s the one Candace Owens visited in Chattanooga. All boys?
The folks involved attended the Lee/DeVos “sell our public schools for parts” meeting tn.chalkbeat.org/2019/4/2/21055…
They have one in Chattanooga, fb.watch/b6OQmcYSEV/
Edweek writes this about them, “several big-city school districts have opened all-boys schools designed to improve academic achievement and social-emotional skills for non-white students.” Segregation much?

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Feb 13
🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨ACTION ALERT on privatizing public schools
HB2833/SB2168
HB2833/SB2168 will be heard by the House Education Instruction Subcommittee on Tuesday, Feb 15th. The bill makes it easier for charter operators to obtain authorization and it provides grants and subsidies to charter schools that are not available to traditional public schools.
It does nothing to improve the educational experiences of students. I repeat, this does nothing to improve the educational experience of students-it does, however, allow venture capitalists an opportunity to profit off our kids.
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Feb 1
TN, we need educated people who understand what freedom means up here every day and attend every committee meeting. The Gov Ops meeting today on education rules ended up about banning accurate history, punishing teachers & school systems for teaching facts. It was frightening.
Most of my colleagues across the aisle believe freedom means you believing the same things they do. They do not believe in freedom of thought. Good education terrifies them.
They think there are “nice” ways to teach slavery so kids don’t feel bad. Teachers teach facts, not feelings. This is authoritarian BS. You can’t legislate feelings…yet here they go. Be afraid of these GOP extremists.
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Nov 10, 2021
Sedition, a thread👇🏼
So seems most of you missed HJR9005 calling for sedition in the pro-Covid special session. It was sponsored by the Speaker and Rep Ragan ran the bill in committee and on the floor. I’m pretty shocked the press didn’t notice this resolution calling for sedition, but here we are.
I will spare you the entire reading of the seditious resolution and the rant against people who care about their neighbors after it, so here are some excerpts. It’s hard to sedition when you argue revisionist history.🙄
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Nov 9, 2021
More on the supermajority’s “backroom, secret map power grab” redistricting process.👇🏼 I did an interview with @GeraldHarrisTV today and he asked some interesting questions.
First we talked about the process and the supermajority’s performative attempts at “transparency.” There is nothing transparent about this Backroom power grab.
The maps are said to be “concepts” at this point, perhaps not the final. Weird that some members get to see them and some have to be “invited.”
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Nov 8, 2021
Hearing from a Democratic colleague that he saw the new map for his district. I asked about seeing my map and was told I had to ask for an invite from the GOP Rep who is over East TN maps. My colleague did not get an “invite.”
Seems to me elected members of the body should not need invitations to see the maps of their districts. Even with the understanding that some may just be drafts. There should be transparency in the process.
They claim it’s “transparent” to have a website and give the appearance of allowing input. But transparent would be having a draft map that all could see in process. There is nothing transparent about this.
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Oct 29, 2021
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.
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