As we all pray specifically about HB2795, it is good to have some information about the bill’s sponsor Rep G. A. Hardaway, including a new bill he is sponsoring on the bottom!

Rep G.A. Hardaway’s official site http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/house/members/h92.htm Democrat from Memphis.

In the video in the previous post, Rep G.A. Hardaway said he is the “founder and visionary of the Memphis Academy of Health Sciences, the 1^st public charter school in Tennessee.” Therefore he understood the “anticipation and anxiety” of the public system and he “had sympathy with the anxiety of homeschoolers” about the “autonomy we enjoy.” Find that charter school here http://www.mahsmemphis.com/home.htm

This appears to be the document spoken of in the video as the Tennessee State Board of Education’s High School Transition Policy http://tnmea.org/hs_transition_policy.pdf that Rep Hardaway needs to review in light of his bill. This says:

TENNESSEE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL POLICY 2.103

ELEMENTS OF SCHOOL-WIDE REFORM

The following policy will be effective beginning with the ninth grade class entering high school during the 2009-2010 school year.

This site seems unfinished but is listed as “Elect G.A. Hardaway” http://www.politicalgateway.com/cand.php?id=832

Article in The Tennessean about it http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080228/NEWS04/802280401

Nashville WKRN http://www.news2wkrn.com/vv/2008/02/28/they-be-schooling-them-legislators-homes/

And finally – another bill Rep Hardaway is sponsoring: