In a scathing press release, school leaders in Arlington, a wealthy Memphis suburb, including board member Dale Viox, the president-elect of the Tenn. School Board Assoc., slam voucher expansion and call the state's A-F letter grade revamp a "sham"
Leaders accuse the Tennessee Dept. of Education for being unavailable because of remote work policies, and orchestrating a "news dump ... trickery" by releasing letter grades just before Christmas
@ldtestino Why describe Arlington as wealthy? Who cares? In fact, it’s a strong middle-class, family-oriented community. You are quoting the leader of the school board. Spent any time looking into the influence of teacher’s unions and school boards? Your journalism is propaganda.
@ldtestino Absurd. Private schools outpace government schools every day. Why is that?
@ldtestino @TheTNHoller We must stop this war on public education.
@ldtestino The voucher will pay parents who live in rural areas but work in the cities to drop their kids off at the private schools there, thereby draining millions from rural schools.
@ldtestino Sounds a lot like what's happening in Texas. Lawsuits have been filed here because they want to apply the new standards retroactively, which is clearly designed to boost support for vouchers due to "failing schools." 🙄
@ldtestino Vouchers are going to change things.
@ldtestino If public schools are good, then the scholarships will go to them.