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Hello and welcome everyone- please use the Q&A feature to post any questions you have for Zahava. We will do our best to get to all of them.

To access the Zahava's PPT slides, please go to: https://edtrust.org/dollarsandsense/. Click the first session drop-down and download the Session Slides there.

Hey Kiah, just as a FYI, I wanted to let you know that I will promote you to a Panelist if Gini has any issues

Great, thank you!

I just was saying yesterday that the state needs to follow MNPS' lead on Student Based Budgeting - I didn't know that was a thing that we're outliers on. It's seemed to have worked really well and with positive results for MNPS.

In Memphis, we see the state is already sending us more money for public education than more affluent surburan areas. How could one defend a more equitable model that would reduce funding to suburban school districts that already has a lower level of state/local funding BUT has marked higher achievement than city public school students?

Also, the city of Memphis isn’t funding much of public k-12 education. Due to the 2013/14 merger/de-merger we are not receiving (much) finanical support from the city. The funding is now allocated by the county commission. Have you seen cities in other areas that don’t make contributions to public education?

Reminder: Zahava's slides can be found here: https://edtrust.org/dollarsandsense/

Click the first session drop-down and download the Session Slides there.

Thank you!

Thank you! So helpful!

Thank you!!!

Very helpful.

Great - very helpful. Thank you!

Thanks so much Zahava!

Thank you, Zahava!

Thanks for all of your explanations!

Thank you so, so much!

Courtney Bell, Tennessee SCORE, Nashville

Awesome!! TY!! Very helpful.

Thank you @Zahava

So insightful!! It’s clear you know your stuff.

That was great, Zahava! Very good!

That was very useful! Thank you, Zahava!

Thank you so much, Zahava! So useful

Hey, Jack here with Tennesseans for Student Success: jack@tnsuccess.org.

Ali Jaffery, Memphis Education Fund, Memphis, TN

Brian Zralek, Community Organizer with Nashville Organized or Action and Hope (NOAH)

Daniel Watson, Board of Education, Knox County Schools - Thank you Zahava!!!

Thank you so much! Jamey Dobbs, League of Women Voters of Knoxville-Knox County

Robyn Ford- Development Director for City Year Memphis

Haley Mathews- ALLMemphis

Dominique - Stand for Children- Memphis

Matt Johnson, UnifiEd, Chattanooga, TN

Emily Vuoso, Shelby County Schools, Office of Leadership Advisor

My name is Elizabeth Vincent, Clarksville-Montgomery County School System

Thanks, Zahava! - Leigh Cooksey, SCORE

Daniel Watson, Board of Education, Knox County Schools - Thank you Zahava!!!

Molly HegwoodMNPS Office of English LearnersZooming in from Glencliff High School

Sharmeen Russell, Stand for Children-TN

Thanks, Zahava! -Patrick Newton- Urban Leaders Fellowship Nashville

Thanks so much Zahava! Tosha Downey, Memphis Education Fund.

Shohreh Daraei, Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce

Melinda Judd, Nashville Public Education Foundation (NPEF)

Will French, he/him, Metro Nashville Public School & GLSEN TN

Susanne Jackson - stand for children & MICAH --- Memphis

Kate Read Ezell, Ezell Consulting LLC, Nashville

Thank you, Zahava! Breanna Sommers, Vanderbilt Peabody MPP Graduate Student

Ashley Warrington, SCORE, Nashville

Leslie Watt, United Way of Greater Nashville

Thanks, Zahava! Jocelyn Brown - Impact Manager, City Year Memphis

Sarah Morgan with the Benwood Foundation. very helpful!

Zehava, Toda Raba! it was very intresting. Boaz.

Boaz Tsabar, Humphery Program (Israel).

Stacy A. Crescencio, she/her, hers, Metro Nashville Public School, Wright Middle School

Vanessa Lazón, Metro Nashville Public Schools' EL Office

Robert Gowan, Coalition of Large School Systems

Vanessa Lazón, Metro Nashville Public Schools' EL Office

This session will be recorded and posted on this page under Session 1. https://edtrust.org/dollarsandsense/

Sycamore Institute is here in Tennessee and just released analysis on Gov. Lee's proposed budget: https://www.sycamoreinstitutetn.org/

Lee Harrell, TQEE

Tennessee's funding lawsuit will go to trial this October: https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2020/7/15/21326022/judge-sets-trial-date-for-tennessees-5-year-old-school-funding-lawsuit

You can find the ELC's Making the Grade report in our Session 1 folder or here: https://edlawcenter.org/research/making-the-grade/

Actually the state of TN average per student is $7500, and The SE average per state is $10500. TN is 45th in the nation and our LEA's depend on local funding to survive.

TN had record surplus's this year. Jan 2021 alone tn had a surplus of $380million.

Thanks Jane - clearly we have the resources, just have to make the effort.

Here's their $600 Billion Lost report: https://edlawcenter.org/research/$600-billion-lost.html

Gini, this is interesting given Race To The Top. Good info and surprising.

Please take our Session 1 survey here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TSFLS_01

Can you relate these numbers to academic outcomes in TN relative to other states?

TN has $3billion in the rainy day fund and made huge cuts to education and teacher raises this last year, while they made record surpluses all year long, due to internet sales tax sales and others.

We will talk about the impact of funding on student outcomes in Session 4 - thanks Kate!

Excellent Information! Thank you so much!

Great information. These are helpful resources. Thank you, Danielle.

Thank you Danielle!

Awesome. Thanks, Danielle!

Thanks so much Danielle!

Thank you so much Danielle!

Thank you, Danielle!

Thank you so much for your work and sharing with all of us.

This is great info, Danielle….very helpful for advocates!

Thank you, Danielle!

Thanks to all involved!

Thank you!!

Thank you Gini. We appreciate you and Ed Trust TN.

Thanks so much

We need to act now if we want the state to fund our public schools. In 4 months the legislative session will be over.

^Thank you, gracious hosts!! Great information.