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Could Student-Based Budgeting Be a Smarter Way to Fund Chattanooga Schools?

Metro Ideas Project

  A new Chattanooga nonprofit, the Metro Ideas Project, hopes to bring big changes to our city’s education system.  The Metro Ideas Project is a research team made up of academics, policy-makers, and journalists who are focused on making midsize cities like Chattanooga work better for their citizens. 

First, they’re trying to get a more efficient budgeting system in place in Hamilton County Schools: student-based budgeting. WUTC’s Jake Freeman reports on a recent meeting where Nashville experts explained how student-based budgeting improved their schools.