Drew Kim

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  Published on: 6/1/2007    Last Visited: 6/1/2007  

  -- The first is to make it easier for hard-pressed school systems to recruit teachers in tough-to-fill subject areas, such as such as math, science and special education, said Drew Kim, director of the governor's office of policy and planning.
  
  -- The second is to provide direct state intervention where it's necessary.Failing schools would become high-priority areas where the state could take early action to turn problems around.Those actions could include state takeover of a school, converting it to a charter school, or working with private experts to correct problems, Kim said.
  
  -- "The third one is around principals.It's about giving principals alternatives in decision-making authority."Kim explained.
  
  "If you perform, there should be incentives.If you consistently perform, there should be incentives, and, if you consistently fail, there should be consequences."
  
  -- The fourth goal would apply to teacher colleges, which would be more accountable for the quality of teachers they graduate, Kim said.

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  Published on: 3/5/2007    Last Visited: 3/5/2007  

  "This is very important to the governor be-cause he experienced something very similar and it changed the trajectory of his life in terms of going to Harvard and majoring in physics," said Drew Kim, Bredesen's policy chief.

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  Published on: 2/8/2008    Last Visited: 2/8/2008  

  Drew Kim, the executive director of the governor's Office of Policy and Planning, is moving to a national lobbying firm.
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  Kim was the governor's chief policy adviser for more than six years.
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  Both Gowan and Kim are required to wait a full year after leaving the administration before they can become lobbyists.

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  Published on: 10/22/2007    Last Visited: 11/23/2007  

  Drew Kim, Policy Chief

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  Published on: 3/1/2007    Last Visited: 3/1/2007  

  "The governor sees it as both a way for more people to have access to college and as a stimulus to economic development in communities," Bredesen's policy chief, Drew Kim, said.

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  Published on: 5/15/2007    Last Visited: 5/15/2007  

  Drew Kim, director of the Governor's State Planning Office, said changes were monumental in regards to the BEP and because the state is proposing funding a larger portion of teacher salaries, an increase of 10 percent bringing the state's share to 75 percent, the school district shouldn't be affected by eliminating the CDF.
  
  "This is really a paradigm shift in the sense that in some ways what we want to do is clear the deck, clear the scar tissue of the CDF…," Kim said.

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  Published on: 3/13/2003    Last Visited: 3/13/2003  

  "The funds must be used for increasing salaries, and the distribution of those funds must be determined by the local districts," said Drew Kim, Bredesen's policy chief."This is just a first step, a good faith effort to address teacher pay equity."
  
  Some districts said they would target the lowest paid teachers.Others said they would focus on the areas with the highest turnover or create a ladder that rewards experience.
  
  "I don't know what flexibility we'll have," Lawrence County School Superintendent Butch Morrow said.

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  After the Corps - Alumni - One Day: Teach For America... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 4/1/2008    Last Visited: 8/21/2008  

  Drew Kim
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  Drew Kim
  
  Policy Chief to Tenn. Gov.
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  Bredesen credited his young policy chief, Drew Kim (S. Louisiana '92), who had led a commission to address the issue of teacher pay.
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  Bredesen said Kim won his task force members' trust early on.
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  Kim honed his mediation skills as an elementary school teacher in Baton Rouge.After the corps, he earned a master's degree in public policy from Duke University.Six years later, after working for policy groups on education and economic development, he joined Bredesen's gubernatorial campaign.After the Democrat's election in 2003, Kim rapidly became one of his top aides.
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  There's no question that Drew Kim is one of those people for Gov.
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  "The part I love the most," says the 38- year-old Kim, "is sitting down with [the governor] and trying to find those opportunities, those gaps where you can really try to create something new and big and bold."It's what Kim calls the research-and-development phase.He has big ideas for recruiting teachers to hard-to-staff areas, raising teacher pay, and overhauling school-funding formulas.But he knows that nothing will get done without political finesse."We've got to dribble this out and talk to legislators, [the teacher's union], all those different players, to get a sense of where they are."Among the programs Kim has successfully ushered in: a voluntary pre-kindergarten program, a health-care plan to cover working people without insurance, and an alternativecertification teacher recruitment program called Teach Tennessee.

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  After the Corps - Alumni - One Day: Teach For America... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 4/1/2008    Last Visited: 7/12/2009  

  Drew Kim
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  Drew Kim Policy Chief to Tenn. Gov.
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  Bredesen credited his young policy chief, Drew Kim (S. Louisiana '92), who had led a commission to address the issue of teacher pay.
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  Bredesen said Kim won his task force members' trust early on.
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  Kim honed his mediation skills as an elementary school teacher in Baton Rouge. After the corps, he earned a master's degree in public policy from Duke University. Six years later, after working for policy groups on education and economic development, he joined Bredesen's gubernatorial campaign. After the Democrat's election in 2003, Kim rapidly became one of his top aides. "Drew's been at the conception of every initiative that the governor's done," says Matthew Kisber, Tennessee's commissioner for economic and community development.
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  There's no question that Drew Kim is one of those people for Gov.
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  "The part I love the most," says the 38- year-old Kim, "is sitting down with [the governor] and trying to find those opportunities, those gaps where you can really try to create something new and big and bold. It's what Kim calls the research-and-development phase. He has big ideas for recruiting teachers to hard-to-staff areas, raising teacher pay, and overhauling school-funding formulas. But he knows that nothing will get done without political finesse. "We've got to dribble this out and talk to legislators, [the teacher's union], all those different players, to get a sense of where they are. Among the programs Kim has successfully ushered in: a voluntary pre-kindergarten program, a health-care plan to cover working people without insurance, and an alternativecertification teacher recruitment program called Teach Tennessee.

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  Published on: 5/23/2005    Last Visited: 5/24/2005  

  "We'd like to see the school system basically turn around and begin to have a community discussion about how they want to cover as many children as they can," said Drew Kim, policy chief for Bredesen.

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