The Associated Press is reporting about last night’s SCORE debate at the Belmont Curb Event Center with all seven gubernatorial candidates.
Democratic businessman Mike McWherter of Jackson in his first comments of the evening urged full funding for the state’s Basic Education Program launched by his father, former Gov. Ned McWherter, and said he would maintain the pre-kindergarten program championed by Bredesen.
But McWherter also cast himself as the outsider in the field.
“I’m a businessman, I’m not a politician,” he said. “And there are a lot of people on this stage here tonight who had a chance to fix education in this state and simply haven’t gotten the job done.”
Channel 5 is reporting Mike’s thoughts on the recent push for elected school superintendents.
“The last thing Tennessee needs is another 165 politicians out there running our school system”, said McWherter.
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