This week, Tennesseans for Quality Early Education (TQEE) announced the launch of the Bright Start TN network and I am proud to share that Chattanooga-Hamilton County has been selected as one of six inaugural Bright Start TN community partners. Chattanooga 2.0 will be the local backbone…

Last week the City of Chattanooga’s Health and Education Facilities Board approved supporting a new Skill Up cohort in collaboration with Chattanooga State, The Enterprise Center and the Chattanooga Chamber (through grant funding we received through the Regions’ Foundation). The Skill Up program provides job training…

Happy, healthy students who are eager to be in the classroom to learn - could educators and parents be dreaming? Thanks to out-of-school time partners and Hamilton County Schools Summer REACH program, this is in fact, a 2021 reality. In our Chattanooga 2.0 2021 Report to the…

  Throughout May, Chattanooga 2.0 is championing the importance of early learning and early literacy. Breckan Duckworth, Literacy Officer with Hamilton County Schools, joins us for this week’s Coffee with Molly. Watch or listen as they break down why early literacy is important and what work is…

  Throughout April, Chattanooga 2.0 is championing the importance of early childhood. Today, Molly is talking with Katie Harbison, President of Chambliss Center for Children, about hot topics in early learning. Coffee with Molly is a video blog series during which Chattanooga 2.0 Executive Director, Molly Blankenship,…