Supporting Effective Teaching in Tennessee: Executive Summary | Page 8
aims to make Tennessee a national
leader in education reform. By uniting
stakeholders from the education,
SCORE IS an
government, business, and philanthropic
communities in a non-partisan forum,
O P P O R T u n I T y fO R T R u E
SCORE is an opportunity for true
collaboration that builds on Tennessee’s
C O l l a b O R aT I O n T h aT
rich tradition of education reform.
SCORE is committed to learning about
all the great things happening in schools
buIldS On TEnnESSEE’S
across Tennessee, sharing these successes
across the state, and developing a plan for
RICh TR adITIOn Of
how the state can move forward. In light
of the upcoming 2010 gubernatorial
E d u C aT I O n R E fO R m .
election, recent turnover in the legislature,
and the elevated interest of the business
and philanthropic communities in
statewide education reform, the creation
The Tennessee State Collaborative on Reforming Education
of SCORE could not be better timed to ensure that all the
(SCORE) grew out of this rich statewide commitment to
major stakeholders in Tennessee work together to sustain and
education. Building on the state’s previous successes, SCORE
elevate the state’s commitment to education.
Courtesy of the Tennessee State Library and Archives
Governor Phil Bredesen (2003-present)
has continued this tradition of strong
education leadership. In 2005, Bredesen
rallied strong bipartisan support for his
Pre-K initiative, which has appropriated
$213 million over the past four years
to provide pre-school for 18,000 of the
state’s neediest four year-olds. Bredesen
has also focused on ensuring Tennessee
students graduate high school prepared
for college or the workforce by working
with the State Board of Education to pass
the Tennessee Diploma Project, which
set more rigorous high school graduation
standards and created a new, more
difficult statewide assessment test aligned
with the new standards.
Governor Ned McWherter signs the Tennessee Education Improvement Act on March 11, 1992.
The Act created both the BEP funding formula and the TVAAS data system.
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