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There's a new battle over education, and students are caught in the middle. The State Education Department plans to withhold over $3 million from the Metro School District next month. It's the price the District will pay for not approving a charter school amendment for Great Hearts Academies. Great Hearts appealed to the state and won, but Metro refused to grant the charter, which became a violation of state law. On Tuesday, state officials announced plans to withhold $3.4 million from the Metro School District. Governor Bill Haslam says the district had to be penalized.
"We don't do this with any sense of trying to use the state's power in any way, but like any other state law that the General Assembly passes, we're responsible for enforcing that law, and that's why we took this action," says Governor Haslam.
The state says this is a one-time financial penalty and that the money will come from mainly administrative funding. Metro says there is no way to separate the money, and that the shortfall will eventually impact students in the classroom.
"We don't do this with any sense of trying to use the state's power in any way, but like any other state law that the General Assembly passes, we're responsible for enforcing that law, and that's why we took this action," says Governor Haslam.
The state says this is a one-time financial penalty and that the money will come from mainly administrative funding. Metro says there is no way to separate the money, and that the shortfall will eventually impact students in the classroom.
Wednesday, September 19 2012, 12:45 AM CDT
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2 appellate court judges are stepping down
May 24, 2013 21:29 GMT
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Two Tennessee appellate court judges have notified Gov. Bill Haslam that they will not run for another term on the bench in the August 2014 retention election.
Patricia J. Cottrell, a judge on the Court of Appeals, and Joseph M. Tipton, who sits on the Court of Criminal Appeals bench, will both leave after September of next year.
The announcements come after the state legislature left Tennessee without a way to replace judges who step down or die when a commission expires at the end of next month.
Members of the soon-to-be-defunct Judicial Nominating Commission will make recommendations for replacements to give to Haslam before the panel expires. Haslam will appoint the replacements from those recommendations.
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