The Negotiating The Purchase Price Of Re-Segregation

By Kleinheider Posted on May 29, 2008 at 7:17 am

Amy Griffith reports on the school rezoning recommendations of an 11-member task force led by MNPS school board member Mark North:

The task force’s proposal nearly doubles the geographic area feeding into Pearl-Cohn High School, which would encompass much of North Nashville, Metro Center and downtown. Most schools in the revised Pearl-Cohn cluster, if established, would have student populations consisting of at least 80 percent of students receiving Free and Reduced Meals.

Task force members came to a consensus that, if these changes are to be made, “prerequisites” in the form of additional resources for all schools in the cluster must be put in place. These resources include incentive pay for teachers and staff, which could only be established through negotiations between MNPS and the teachers’ union; lower ratios of students to teachers and additional guidance counselors; and more access for students to technology as well as social workers and psychologists.

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