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Georgia resident Tricia Harris, 38, joins her son Caleb, 2 1/2, at the Siskin Children s Institute before heading home for the day.@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@Robin McWilliam s seven years as research director at the Siskin Center for Child and Family Research ended this week, a separation McWilliam attributed to budget tightening and bad chemistry with institute president John Farrimond.McWilliam is the only one of the Siskin Children s Institute s 112 full-time employees to lose his job. He told the Times Free Press he was the second highest paid employee after the president and that the decision to let him go was@pretty stupid@because it ends research programs at the institute.@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Robin McWilliam@@@@@@@@@@@@crocs absatz@@@@ John Farrimond@@ The research institute closes down with my departure,@he said.On its tax return, the institute lists McWilliam s salary as $172,863 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2014. Farrimond was paid $192,173.The institute s four divisions are education, outreach, health care and research. The institute s financial records show a staff of thre yeezy e doctoral researchers who collaborate with other universities - partnerships McWilliam had forged. McWilliam and Farrimond both say closing down the institute s research division affects only his job and his admin air force one istrative assistant s. But McWilliam said Siskin was trying to find his assistant a comparable job.McWilliam was already a celebrated academic w Ksho German dog to be spayed after 17-puppy litter
PETITION GOING TO GOVERNORA petition criticizing Tennessee Education Commissioner Kevin Huffman, signed by least 55 school superintendents, is on its way to Gov. Bill Haslam.The petition was started by Dan Lawson, director of Tullahoma City Schools.In their petition, superintendents said that Huffman s of stanley mugs fice@has no interest in a dialogue@with local school officials as he seeks to reshape Tennessee s system of education. As a result, the petition says, teachers are demoralized.Haslam said the issue has not come up in talks he has had with small groups of superintendents. That s why I said in my response I was disappointed,@Haslam told reporters earlier in the day.@I honestl gourde stanley y feel discussion is the best way to handle things. Among those signing the petition were directors or superintendents from Dayon, Franklin County, Manchester, Marion County, Meigs County and Van Buren County.NASHVILLE - A Middle Tennessee school director said he was discouraged from testifying before a legislative panel on behalf of new student benchmarks after Gov. Bill Haslam s chief of staff learned he also had signed a petition criticizing Education Commissioner Kevin Huffman on other issues.Lawrence County Schools Director Bill Health made the assertion in an email sent to fellow school directors and superintendents. The email was obtained by stanley cups@the Times Free Press.Heath did not return a call Wednesday. Nor did Wayne Miller, executive director of the Tennessee Organization of School Superintendents.
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