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Thursday, April 24, 2014

Sumner County's Portable Schools

Local grassroots advocacy group Strong Schools has a new video out highlighting the proliferation of portable classrooms in the system.

The video points to the stark reality that thousands of kids every day attend class in portables -- supposedly temporary solutions to growth that have become permanent fixtures at schools across the county. 

They also note that this is not a recent phenomenon - that some portables have been on campuses for ten years or more.

Here's the video:


Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Pro-Schools County Commission Candidates

The Political Action Committee (PAC) of local grassroots education advocacy group Strong Schools released its list of pro-schools candidates for County Commission ahead of early voting, which starts today and runs through May 1st.

Strong Schools PAC made its initial round of endorsements for the May 6th Republican Primary and noted it will release a second round of endorsements for the August General Election.

The only contested races on May 6th are in the GOP primary.

"These are the candidates voters can count on to put schools first," said Strong Schools PAC Chair Wes Duenkel.  "They've responded to surveys, attended public forums, and answered tough questions.  It's time we had a County Commission that made schools a top priority and these candidates will do just that."

The Strong Schools PAC's Pro-Schools candidates for the Republican Primary include:

District 3: Alan Driver

District 4: Jerry Foster & Leslie Schell

District 5: Baker Ring

District 6: Kevin Pomeroy

District 7: JoAnne Kemp and Trisha LeMarbre

District 9: Chris Taylor, Jerry Becker, & Andy Griffin

District 10: Paul Goode and Caroline Krueger

District 11:  Bill Taylor and Scott Langford

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