The Crossville Chronicle recently ran a story about a meeting Mitch Steenrod, VP/CFO of Pilot Travel Centers, held with Crossville residents about education.
According to the Crossville Chronicle, "Steenrod wants to see a cause and effect from funding for public education. He said the Knox County school system is instituting a new accounting system that will allow them to know the total costs down to the building level ... Knox County is also trying to integrate the value added scores from standardized test into the data reports to be able to look at educational success.
"Steenrod added he felt If taxpayers can be shown the results coming from their investment, they are much more likely to be comfortable with their tax money supporting the school system.
" 'The business community is telling the schools what they want in their employees,' said Steenrod. 'Those things are communications skills, decent math skills plus confidence and problem solving skills.' "
Read the Crossville Chronicle story about Steenrod's meeting in Crossville.
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