Category: Education free market

Supt. Smith demands F$34 million more, yet silent on ‘eligibility standards’ in law

State government’s No. 2 expenditure is the school system. (Graphic Tennessee comprehensive annual financial report, 2014) By David Tulis Dr. Rick Smith is the man whose great will in matters of schooling superintends the wills of others in the local system. He intends there to be more cash to spend for administration, improvements and students. […]

Beyond fighting Common Core, critic proposes schools exodus

Karen Bracken By David Tulis A Common Core critic in the Chattanooga area appears to have made an important conceptual break with the public school system, organizing a group that views an exodus as vital as her effort to rid the state of Common Core. Karen Bracken holds elected office as commissioner in Polk County, […]

How LGBTQ activists might view local economy (not favorable)

Gay rights and transsexual theory are the arguments of UTC students manning this table for Spectrum, a university group. (Photo Facebook) I think for 100 years of UTC history, [LGBTQ] students have been neglected. *** There hasn’t been any sort of homage to us in policy until recently. Now that there is, I think it […]

Hot News Talk Radio extends reach, touts free markets, local economy

Radio veteran Sab Cupelli installs an exciter board on a transmitter as talk show star Russell Stroud awaits orders. Both work at Hot News Talk Radio 1240 AM in Soddy-Daisy. (Photo David Tulis) By David Tulis If you are somebody’s who’s prayed for my work in Christian journalism in Chattanooga, many thanks. God is proving […]

Theology brings paralysis, death to Tennessee Temple

In an improvement from earlier years, Tennessee Temple University in Chattanooga, Tenn., teaches students how to deal with worldviews hostile to Christianity. By David Tulis The collapse of Tennessee Temple University in Chattanooga tells of a faltering faction in Christianity that had its heyday in the 1960s in American fundamentalism’s peak. The school was a […]

7 homeschooled children kidnapped by Arkansas to be held in state custody

Riven by the state after a heavily armed police raid, the Hal Stanley family is praying for release of its seven children. (Photo Medicalkidnap.com) By Terri LaPoint / Health Impact News It will be at least “6 more weeks of kidnapping” for the 7 homeschooled, homebirthed Stanley children, according to their father. Hal and Michelle […]

Bartleby’s ‘I prefer not to’ keeps us from schools, standardized tests

The story of Bartleby the scrivener by Melville depicts dogged noncompliance with authority. The book at right explains how Christians can flourish by being noncompliant and resisting “the good people.” [Our interest in the ideas of local economy and free markets force us to dash ourselves against the ironclad sides of the public school. Heads […]

Baylor helps reflate economy with state-sponsored $13 million in red ink

Baylor School in Chattanooga is beneficiary of a F$13 million bond issue by the state. (Photo Baylor website) By David Tulis A government body’s creation of F$13 million in bonds for an exclusive private school in Chattanooga is a picture of commercial government writ rich. Last week a board of a state corporate subdivision known […]