Chattanooga 2.0’s 10 urgent strategies
1. Strengthen and support families.2. Provide early-learning networks to help parents ready their children for school.3. Re-imagine learning to incorporate the 21st Century technology and the Gig into classrooms.4. Make reading a priority.5. Make great teaching a priority, and increase the number of highly effective teachers in classrooms.6. Empower and support principals — with training, not just lip service.7. Focus on equity in community schools to make all schools good schools.8. Prepare all students for college and career.9. Increase post-secondary completion.10. Connect more residents to high-paying jobs.
It’s sad to say, but education in Hamilton County this past year has had almost as much drama as America’s 2016 presidential campaign.
But still not enough. Not enough, because there is more at stake in our classrooms.
So we’re rallying the village.
Here, all politics are local, and it will take our village to fix what’s broken for many of the 43,000 students in Hamilton County public school classrooms, for the 100-plus major employers in Hamilton County that cannot find enough local job-ready workers and for all of the nearly 350,000 county residents.