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  • Excellent Teachers Are Everywhere!

    Excellent Teachers Are Everywhere!

    Read about some excellent Hamilton County teachers, visit their classrooms (by video), and tell us your own story of an excellent teacher.

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  • Jane Harbaugh Innovation Fund for Teachers

    Jane Harbaugh Innovation Fund for Teachers

    Innovation Grant award winner Chandra Chandresekaran works with student Orlando Gillespie at Howard School of Academics and Technology.  His students will build operating models of renewable energy sources to study how to reduce pollution.

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  • TENNESSEE WINS RACE TO THE TOP!

    TENNESSEE WINS RACE TO THE TOP!

    PEF President Dan Challener was a member of the team that wrote the proposal.  He offers insight into how RTTT will affect Tennessee and Hamilton County.

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  • Principal Leadership Academy Begins

    Principal Leadership Academy Begins

    Four partners – PEF, Hamilton County schools, the Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce and UTC – have launched an Academy to help prepare assistant principals to become principals. New director Dr. Godfrey Saunders (L) talks with Tom Edd Wilson, President & CEO of the Chamber, and Tom White, Senior VP of Investor Relations at Unum.

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PEF is a local non-profit dedicated to improving student achievement in Hamilton County Schools Get Involved

“Volkswagen sees tremendous opportunity… in its partnership with Hamilton County schools and we're looking forward to working with the school system...”
Jill Bratina
Director of Corporate Communications, Volkswagen