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	<title>Blount Education Initiative</title>
	<link>http://www.blounteducation.org</link>
	<description>To make education our community&#039;s top priority by developing a sustained public awareness campaign focusing on the critical issues related to education.</description>
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		<title>Tennessee&#8217;s Educational Reform Efforts Are Well Underway</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A wake up call several years ago led Tennessee to reform its educational requirements so that students are better prepared for life after high school. BEI Executive Director Bonny Millard discusses some of those changes, why they were necessary and what needs to be done, in a recent podcast.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blounteducation.org/2010/08/13/tennessees-educational-reform-efforts-are-well-underway/</link>
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		<title>Tougher New Standards Mean Better Future for Our Children</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Please check out Tennessee Score's new website "Expect More, Achieve More," which provides valuable information about Tennessee's tougher new standards, why they are needed and how it is going to impact our students. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blounteducation.org/2010/08/04/tougher-new-standards-mean-better-future-for-our-children/</link>
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		<title>First to the Top Coalition Announced; Expect More, Achieve More Launched</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gov. Phil Bredesen, former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, Tennessee Commissioner of Education Tim Webb, and Sen. Jamie Woodson joined together in Knoxville earlier this week to announce the First to the Top Coalition, a statewide alliance with more than 30 partners, which includes Blount Education Initiative.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blounteducation.org/2010/07/23/first-to-the-top-coalition-announced-expect-more-achieve-more-launched/</link>
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		<title>Teachers Make a Difference Long After Students Have Left Their Classroom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Teachers never know what influence they have on children. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blounteducation.org/2010/05/14/teachers-make-a-difference-long-after-students-have-left-their-classroom/</link>
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		<title>Calling All Educators&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The educational partners in Innovation Valley are hosting the second annual Educators in the Workplace -- Lunch &#038; Learn series and invite area educators to participate.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blounteducation.org/2010/05/10/1256/</link>
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		<title>BEI Director Shares the Results of a High School Senior Survey with WBIR</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WBIR anchor John Becker interviews Executive Director Bonny Millard during a segment of Newsmakers about BEI's recent high school Senior Survey. The survey shows that our students are listening and are preparing for their future. Watch the interview with Becker.

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		<link>http://www.blounteducation.org/2010/05/07/bei-director-shares-the-results-of-a-high-school-senior-survey-with-wbir/</link>
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		<title>90 percent of Graduating High School Seniors from all four Schools Plan for Post-Secondary Education and/or Training</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our high school seniors once again show that they understand the value of education through Blount Education Initiative's Senior Survey of graduating seniors from all four high schools.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blounteducation.org/2010/05/06/90-percent-of-graduating-high-school-seniors-from-all-four-schools-plan-for-post-secondary-education-andor-training/</link>
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		<title>Congratulations to Mary Beth West Consulting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the last year and a half, Blount Education Initiative has worked closely with Mary Beth West Consulting, LLC, to develop and coordinate BEI's public awareness campaign.  Mary Beth West and her team were recently recognized with numerous awards from the Public Relations Society of America Volunteer chapter. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blounteducation.org/2010/04/19/congratulations-to-mary-beth-west-consulting/</link>
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		<title>BEI&#8217;s Message Heard in the East Tennessee Region</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Knoxville News Sentinel columnist Greg Johnson helps share BEI's message in a recent column he wrote on Tennessee's winning the "Race to the Top" funding.
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		<link>http://www.blounteducation.org/2010/04/12/beis-message-heard-in-the-east-tennessee-region/</link>
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		<title>BEI Advocates Investing in Education to Ensure A Healthy Economic Future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Want more jobs in Blount County?  If so, then it’s important for all citizens in the local area to ask a critical question – of themselves, according to the Blount Education Initiative (BEI).

BEI urges citizens who want Blount County to attract and retain employers that offer well-paying, secure jobs to first ask themselves, “Does my own education level offer enough to attract a new employer to Blount County?”
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		<link>http://www.blounteducation.org/2010/04/06/bei-advocates-investing-in-education-to-ensure-a-healthy-economic-future/</link>
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