Former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist announced today he’s organizing town hall meetings across the state to talk about effective education programs. He also wants to hear from parents and teachers about educational programs that need to get cut.
Frist calls the project the State Collaborative on Reforming Education or SCORE. He says similar programs in Kentucky and North Carolina have led to rising test scores and graduation rates. As much as he wants to find new ways to get through to students, Frist says he wants to get rid of ineffective methods too.
“If we do our job and communicate well, there will be a public demand that money will shift and attention will shift to those things that work instead of those that don’t.”
Now that he no longer holds elected office, Frist says he may have more freedom to talk about cutting programs, which is often an unpopular proposition.
Frist plans to hold 10 public meetings between March and October. The website he’s developed to gather feedback is tenneseescore.com.
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