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.