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Tennessee SCORE Initiative Report

Senator Bill Frist’s effort to reform education in Tennessee was born out of a great need. Looking at the landscape of public education, Tennessee’s schools were behind almost all other states in the Southeast.  Sen. Frist wanted to develop a plan that would prepare every high school graduate in the state for college or a career.

The result was the State Collaborative On Reforming Education—Tennessee SCORE. After several months went by and several small mountains of research, statistics and recommendations appeared, DVL gave them legs with an interim annual report, and later, the final report for 2009, SCORE’s “A Roadmap to Success.”

The interim report served as “the state of education in Tennessee.” The amassed research showed facts and figures on every school in the state. Information like average test scores, public funding and teacher training painted a picture showing which direction the state’s education is headed.

But knowing the status of education wasn’t the goal - to reform education, there had to be a plan of attack. So the second report outlined SCORE’s ambitious plan for creating positive change for an underachieving state.

Tennessee SCORE wants the state to be among the top in the Southeast and the nation in only five years, and the recommended first phase won’t require any additional funds. It’s a plan that has raised the eyebrows of media across the state, but more importantly, the public is talking about reforming education.

Like SCORE, DVL’s hopes for our home state’s education system are high, and we’re glad to have played a part in this important collaboration.

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