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Graduation Celebration is Thursday, May 28

Posted at 11:00 am April 10, 2015
By Oak Ridge Today Staff Leave a Comment

Graduation Celebration 2014

Graduation Celebration 2014

 

Graduation Celebration—a free, all-night party for high school graduates in Oak Ridge—will host its 18th annual event at the Oak Ridge Civic Center, from 10 p.m. Thursday, May 28, until 5 a.m. Friday, May 29. It is seeking sponsorships and volunteer help with this community-wide effort to keep youth safe on graduation night.

“We are so glad to be able to offer this wonderful event to our graduates,” said Debbie Magill, chairperson of the event. “It shows our youth that the City of Oak Ridge cares about them and is proud of their accomplishments. We could not put on this event without the generous support of the Parks and Recreation Department, the Oak Ridge Youth Advisory Board, and the citizens and businesses of our city.” [Read more…]

Filed Under: Community, Education, Entertainment, Front Page News, K-12, Meetings and Events, Top Stories Tagged With: City of Oak Ridge, Debbie Magill, Graduation Celebration, graduation night, home school, Oak Ridge Civic Center, Oak Ridge High School, Oak Ridge Youth Advisory Board, Parks and Recreation Department, private school, scholarships

Guest column: What do ‘vouchers’ mean to Tennessee taxpayers?

Posted at 2:32 pm March 8, 2015
By Oak Ridge Today Guest Columns Leave a Comment

By Tammy Grissom

A school voucher is a publicly funded credit or certificate whereby a student may be enrolled in a private school and apply the credit to tuition.

So, why should Tennessee taxpayers care?

  1. Vouchers use your money to help pay for a student to go to a private school that answers to private administrators and not you, the taxpayer. Public schools must answer to the people and are held accountable for the use of local, state, and federal educational tax money.
  2. Article XI, Section 12 of the Tennessee Constitution specifically states, “The General Assembly shall provide for the maintenance, support, and eligibility standards of a system of free public schools.” Nowhere in our Constitution is the General Assembly directed to take taxpayer money and use it for a voucher system so parents can use public money to send their children to private schools.
  3. Private schools are not public institutions, and without proper oversight, the “qualifications and standards” for students may fall short of expectations and undermine the fundamental idea of equality in education.  Vouchers require the public to supplement these standards even if they are contrary to state and federal education law.
  4. Vouchers force the public to support two drastically different educational systems, one over which the public has no oversight.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Guest Columns, Opinion Tagged With: boards of education, education, educational system, General Assembly, parental choice, private school, public education, public money, public school system, public schools, school voucher, Tammy Grissom, taxpayer money, Tennessee, Tennessee Constitution, Tennessee School Boards Association, TSBA, tuition, voucher system, vouchers

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