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Schools get their report card
The Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce this week gave the city’s public schools grades of C and B, respectively, in the areas of student achievement and implementation of the district’s strategic plan. This is the 11th year that the chamber has convened a citizens’ panel to review the progress of educating the city’s approximately 70,000 public school children.
Just in the nick...
Three days before Matthew Lyle Koster was supposed to graduate from the local police academy, he pled guilty to possession of child pornography. The 30-year-old was apparently turned in by someone inside the Metro Police Department, and Koster pled guilty in federal court this week. According to The Tennessean, he had 297 porn images on his home computer and more than 83 videos of child pornography. His sentencing is yet to come, but it looks like he’s one recruit who won’t be getting a uniform.
You can scratch off three weeks early
Tennessee lottery president Rebecca Paul announced this week that the statewide lottery will launch Jan. 20, three weeks earlier than originally planned. She noted in a conference call to lottery board members that beating the deadline will mean more revenue for next fall’s lottery-funded college scholarships. It will also mean more money for Paul, whose salary package includes bonuses for exceeding benchmarks.
Our courier Jeff went to Kentucky for nothin’
An Ohio woman, and no one down here at the Scene, has won the $162 million, 11-state lottery jackpot. Rebecca Jemison, a hospital worker, turned in the ticket at Ohio Lottery headquarters, officials said. The lottery validated it Tuesday morning as the sole winning ticket for the Dec. 30 drawing, rendering another woman’s claim that she possessed but lost the winning ticket probable hokum. Jemison took the immediate cash payment option, which is $94 million before taxes. After taxes, the lump sum payment will be an estimated $67 million.
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