“We are satisfactory!”
It’s hardly the slogan you’d want cheerleaders for your favorite football team to use to exhort fans.
But that’s where the Hamilton County Department of Education is listed under the Tennessee Department of Education’s recently released updated accountability system.
“Satisfactory” is the third of four designations under the accountability system – below “exemplary” and “advancing” and above “in need of improvement.”
A year ago, Hamilton County was listed under the second designation, then called “achieving.”