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Vinita Joshi pushed open the door of her fathers white mansion in south Delhi.

Inch by inch, her childhood abode revealed itself to her again. The sparkling two-tier crystal chandelier. The spiral staircase with red velvet stairs. The four marble pillars on each side. The life-size photographs of her grandparents.

On the wall opposite her hung a photograph that had not budged. A grinning Vinita was leaning over Rajinder, who sat in a leather armchair wearing a black suit. Back then, she used to sport a boy cut. Snapped before his hiking accident, the photo showed Rajinder scarless. His face was rigid, his eyes penetrating.

Even his picture seemed to admonish her.

A shattering sound broke the silence.

A man with but two tufts of white hair stood hunched, six feet to her left. A red piece of cloth was slung over his shoulder. Broken glass lay near his sandalled feet.

The man covered his mouth. His hands trembled. Vinita Beti? he staggered forward.

Yes, Prem, Vinita dropped her purse on a glass-top table. I am here.

Vinita was silent.

Trusted executives deserted TeleCorp every month, with not so much as a thank you email. And here was Prem, after thirty- five years, still the Joshis Man Friday. With no immediate family to speak of, the Joshis were the only family he had.

Perhaps he too would leave, now that Rajinder was no more. Prem wiped his face with the red cloth.I dont have much time, Prem. I need to see Dads room. He nodded. I will show you. I have left it as it was, Beti. Vinitas left hand landed on his shoulder. Bring me a cup of strong coffee. She smiled. The way you always made it. Vinita ascended the spiral staircase.

The stairs were unchanged. The sensation was different. To her left, the chandelier shimmered within touching distance of the topmost stair.

Along the hallway, Vinita passed by a picture of her late mother Sanjana at a corporate dinner with Rajinder.

Vinita opened the first door on her right.

A shiny black table stood five feet from Rajinders bed. On it sat a dusty spectacle case.

Vinita recognised the leather couch that used to occupy her room. She ran her fingers along the couchtop.

Cant call it my own anymore. Shouldnt call anything here my own anymore.

Even after all these years, chess had not been far from Rajinder. She lifted her gaze to a picture affixed to the wall.

Kedarnath and she were bowing to Rajinder, seeking his blessings, a decade ago. Those were simpler times. Happier times.

Vinita touched the picture.

Did Kedarnath still live in Delhi? Had he remarried?

She looked towards the window.

Sunlight bathed Rajinders sprawling lawn. The marble statues of warriors posed as sentinels on the cut grass. The water in the circular ceramic pond close to Prems cottage was clear. The marble figurine in the centre of the pond spewed water from its mouth.

As a girl, Vinita had often circled the lawn on her horse Hira. Rajinder always kept watch, but Hira was well-trained. Nothing had ever gone wrong.

Hira was long gone.

Vinita Beti, your hair has turned grey, she heard Prem behind her.

Vinita accepted the warm mug of coffee. Well, I am not young anymore.

Prem smiled. He seemed shorter than he had been nine years ago. Vinita...

Yes?

Why did you not come earlier?

Vinita took in a breath of air. What was left for me here, Prem?

At the first signs of improvement, Rajinder had demanded that the rest of his treatment be completed at home.

Obstinate to the last, Vinita muttered.

Against his better judgement, the doctor had allowed it. Apparently that hadnt been enough for Rajinder, for he had called taxis on the three days that followed. No one knew where he had meant to go.

The first two times he had been caught by Prem. On the third day, it was the doctor. All the while, Rajinder had continued to cough up blood, until the morning Prem had found him motionless, with a final smudge of blood on his mouth and another on the bedsheet.

What would happen now to AveoGen? Was Rajinders Empire still led by men and women passionate about aviation science? Or was it plagued by politics and power struggles?

She would know soon, for she was going to meet the chief technical officer and the VP.

Vinitas eyes fell on a cupboard by the front wall. She twisted its handle. Four black suit bags were lined up on hangers within. Vinita pictured Rajinder in a sharp black suit, with a grin on his face and yet another idea in his mind.

Why hadnt he called her after the accident? The last time she had heard his voice was nine years ago, when they had yelled at each other. She would now live with that memory forever.

Her fingers found a ragged brown backpack below the hangers. The straps were stained with half a dozen drops of dark red.

Vinita unzipped the front. She felt cotton cloth inside. She pulled it out.

Rajinders secretarys words came back to her:

Why would your father leave in a taxi with a backpack and a chessboard when the company was falling apart?

Vinita sighed at the cloth. Chess. The game that had seduced Rajinder on his sixth birthday, when his uncle had presented him with a wooden set. The rest was history.

Vinita hated chess. Work presented enough examples of plotting and planning, with one difference.

No draws were permitted in her world.

Rajinder did try to teach her once, when she was seven. But apparently she had thrown away the pieces and wailed for her teddy bear. That was the one time he had scolded her. At least until then.

A Milton water bottle and a piece of paper lay inside the backpack. Seven lines of text were scribbled on the scrap in Rajinders right-slanted handwriting. + signs hung above some of the words.

Vinitas eyes strained at the text:

Stoopavishalapashchimey Divasamekam antey hayaprishttena Ghanaranyam anantaramAsti samatalakshetrah trishoolakarah Mahimamaye shilanilayeAsha me rajyasampada Samachchana adyapi cha

Vinita read the text again and again.

Asha meant hope. Paschim could mean west. But what did the text mean in its entirety? And why was it in Rajinders backpack?

Prem? Vinita called out.

He appeared within seconds.

What was Rajinder working on before the accident? Prem opened his mouth but did not speak. He wiped his forehead with the red cloth.

I need to know, Prem.

Vinita Beti, he stuttered, sahib was busy at night for the last five months. Always busy.

Busy with what?

All he said was that he wanted to go on a trip.

Trip to where?

I dont know. The driver took leave, so I brought a taxi driver. He lowered his eyes. Sahib had the accident that day.

Prem, Vinita frowned at the text, find that taxi driver.

Silence.

She looked up. Whats the matter?

He died when the taxi hit the truck.

Excerpted with permission from Checkmate, Nihshanka Debroy, Westland.

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Who will be the next world champion? As we witnessed GM Alireza Firouzja beat GM Magnus Carlsen in a very close match a few weeks ago, were starting to consider who will eventually beat Carlsen for the world champion title.

While Firouzja, 2728 as of this month, is a strong candidate to be reckoned with, there are many other strong contenders. Turning 17 later this year, he has already topped the world juniors rating list and is even ranked 21st on the Top 100 Players list. However, I want to bring special attention to other young players as well.

Reaching 2600 is not an easy feat, and a quick glance at the ratings list tells us just three 2600s are in the under-16 category in the world. However, the question remains, who will become the top player in the world, and not just the juniors list, in five years?

Table 1: The Current Under-16 Rankings for the Top 10.

We can see that while the highest rated under-16-year-old is 2627, the 10thhighest rated is 2481. While 2481 is still a very high and respectable rating, it is not quite 2600. Any of these players is extremely promising, but I want to bring attention to three.

Nodirbek Abdusattorov (Uzbekistan), Nihal Sarin (India), and Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa (India), who are all above 2600, are names we have seen at top tournaments. By any means, becoming the world champion is not an easy task, and we are not likely to see any of these three players become world champion tomorrow, but if youre looking to place bets with a friend, I would place my bet on any one of these three.

Before I dive into a more detailed analysis of each youngster, I want to also point out that while getting a high rating at a young age (Carlsen) may indicate you can possibly become the world champion in the future, it also does not necessarily mean you will reach the distinguished 2800 (GM Teimour Radjabov). Along similar lines, GM Fabiano Caruana started being considered as a potential top player at just age 19 or 20, when he started to beat a lot of the other top players. He was certainly not 2600 at 14 (he was 2444) and, in fact, only reached 2600 when 16 years old.

One such display of skill was in 2012, when Caruana beat GM Sergey Karjakin, who at that time had already been 2700 for years. Being a child prodigy neither means that you will become a world champion in your 20s, nor does it mean that you won't just because you are not 2600 at 14 years old. Of course, I think it is vital to point out that just because you are not 2600 at age 16 does not mean you should be deterred from playing chess and pursuing your goals in the game.

For the sake of conciseness, in this article I will only be looking at the standard Elo ratings.

I have chosen to look at Praggnanandhaa and Nihals progress together because these two young players spend a lot of time training together. Looking at the progress that Praggnanandhaa, with a rating of 2608 at just 14 currently, tells us a similar trend is experienced by most young players who reach high ratings (2400+): an overall quick rise with the K40 factor, dotted with a few significant rating drops also caused by the K40 factor. The new K40 factor, which was implemented in 2014, simply means that the ratings of all players under the age of 18 with ratings not above 2300 will fluctuate a lot.

Upon reaching 2300 in early 2016, Praggnanandhaa has since had a steady constant rise to 2600. Overall, the line of best fit would make the graph logarithmic, which makes logical sense because young chess players improve rapidly initially, but games become more difficult to win, and opponents become more experienced at higher ratings.

Figure 1: Praggnanandhaas Rating Progress Chart.

Figure 2: Nihals Rating Progress Chart.

Nihals progress chart follows a similar trend, achieving a rating of 2620 in May 2020. Since June 2019, Nihal has gained just 14 rating points in 78 games. While the plateau near the end (after a rather constant but slightly slowing in the rating rise) is in part affected by COVID-19, as tournaments are postponed for the safety of all, not all the plateau can be attributed to the lack of games in recent months. As mentioned, games become more difficult at a higher level, as players become stronger and more comparable to Nihal and Praggnanandhaa.

Sometimes it is difficult to believe such a young kid is already 2600. Photo: Maria Emelianova/Chess.com.

Nihal hard at work. Photo: Maria Emelianova/Chess.com.

They also likely have better resources such as coaches and seconds compared to the opponents the young players have faced before, and players need to pay more attention to minute details of the game. While I have no doubt that Nihal and Praggnanandhaa are already seasoned players, most of the opponents in the tournaments theyre playing in will have quite a few more years of experience and knowledge.

Abdusattorov, who is very slightly ahead of Nihal and Praggnanandhaa at 2627, has a rating progress chart that is slightly different. I had played Abdusattorov about a year before his dramatic rating rise, which means I can say I contributed a bit to his 2600 rating! At only 10 years old he was already quite a strong player and quite a few years younger than I was.

In context, in 2014 I was 14 and had a rating of 2157, while my opponent had a rating of 2186. Did I predict his meteoric rise to 2600? Quite honestly, not at all, but I am glad to see he has been successful so far in his young career.

Figure 3. Abdusattorovs Rating Progress Chart.

While we can see both Nihal and Praggnanandhaa have had quite significant rating increases in any month, Abdusattorov gained 201.6 points in April 2015 with the help of K40, pushing him above 2400 (and quite significantly as well). Since then, he dipped below 2400 briefly between February and October 2016. However, after a brief spell in the 2300s, his rating since then has been increasing steadily with minor rating losses.

The young Abdusattorov deep in thought. Photo: Maria Emelianova/Chess.com.

Because Praggnanandhaa, Nihal and Abdusattorov are already at 2600, the next question to ask is whether they will reach 2700. In my opinion, they will, and its only a matter of time. I know Praggnanandhaa and Nihal (whom I almost met at training camps in Europe) have the talent and resources necessary. Of course, this doesnt leave out Abdusattorovs contention for the world title in a few years, but I am less familiar with his training.

Aside from the clear favorites for the world championship title in a few years, I do believe there are many other strong contenders in future years. Dommaraju Gukesh (India), at almost 14 years old, is the second-youngest person to qualify for grandmaster. At 2563, he is perfectly well on track to become 2600 before his 15thbirthday and aim for 2700. Similarly, Javokhir Sindarov (Uzbekistan), who is currently 15, is a grandmaster at 2557. Another strong Indian talent, GM Raunak Sadhwani is 2545 at 14.

All three players have rating progress charts like either Praggnanandhaa's and Nihals or Abdusattorov's.

Figure 4: Dommaraju Gukeshs Rating Progress Chart.

We can see the plateau near the end that was discussed earlier.

Figure 5: Javokhir Sindarovs Rating Progress Chart.

Sindarovs progress chart is more similar to Abdusattorovs chart. It shows Sindarov has also experienced significant rating increases and decreases.

Figure 6: Raunak Sadhwanis Rating Progress Chart.

Sadhwanis progress chart is very much like Praggnanandhaas chart. Overall we can predict that all three players will experience rating increases.

Next I want to compare these top young players to the world champion and his last challenger.

Figure 7: Magnus Carlsens Rating Progress Chart.

Carlsen turned 15 in November 2005. Since 15 is roughly the average age of Praggnanandhaa, Nihal, and Abdusattorov, a lot of insight can be gathered from comparing their progress charts. At 15, Carlsen had just gone above 2600 in January 2006, and by October 2006 at age 16 was 2698, almost 2700. While, of course, Carlsen is the current world champion and is quite possibly the strongest player in history, in terms of milestones, I would say that the current three youngsters are very much on track to accomplish something similar.

We can see that for both Carlsen and Fabiano, the year or two after reaching 2600 is crucial, as both charts show rating increases. While Carlsens was more explosive, Fabiano steadily climbed to 2700 within two years after reaching 2620 in April 2008, when he was 16.

Figure 8: Caruana Fabianos Rating Progress Chart.

As I mentioned, we don't see Fabiano rise to fame (2800) immediately, but we see a rather gradual increase starting from 2012.

Using the five main players we have discussed so far, Praggnanandhaa, Nihal, and Abdusattorov for the upcoming candidates as world champions and Caruana and Carlsen as the current top two, we can predict what rating patterns we need to see for the three young players.

Figure 9. Rating vs. Age Projection.

In this analysis, I have assumed a logarithmic line of best fit, comparing it with each lines corresponding R2 value. While we predict that Praggnanandhaa, Nihal, and Abdusattorov will reach high ratings, they are not all you need to become the world champion. One can be extremely highly rated but not become a world champion. Also, the analysis is not taking into consideration potential human outliers, such as any player not continuing chess after a certain age, or other possible disturbances to the trend.

Keeping a close eye on Praggnanandhaa, Nihal and Abdusattorov will be important in the upcoming few months as tournaments start up again. Not being able to play chess for a few months is quite challenging for young players who are more used to playing tournaments every month, and I believe we are all excited to see what happens not only with their ratings after lockdowns lift globally, but also what changes in their chess skills we might see.

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A showdown between Britain's world heavyweight kings Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury is too close to call due to their history as sparring partners.

That is the opinion of veteran American heavyweight Kevin Johnson, who went the distance with reigning WBC champion Fury in a December 2012 points loss, before suffering a second-round knockout defeat to now unified IBF, WBA and WBO beltholder Joshua two-and-a-half years later.

Fury is seen by many as the man to beat in the division, still unbeaten in 31 contests and coming off the back of a career-best demolition of feared knockout artist Deontay Wilder in February.

Joshua's stock took a considerable hit when he was stunned by Andy Ruiz Jr another former Johnson foe last June but he responded in style by closing out an emphatic points verdict in an instant rematch.

The 2012 Olympic champion was due to face Kubrat Pulev at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium this month before the coronavirus pandemic laid waste to those plans, meaning talk of a long-awaited meeting between Joshua and Fury has duly ramped up.

Back in 2010, a 20-year-old Joshua sparreda 21-year-old Fury in London. In remarks far removed from more recentsmack talk, both were complimentary about the other's efforts.

Johnson is a seasoned campaigner across some of the most notable gyms in the sport and served as a sparring partner as Joshua and Fury also did for former unified champion Wladimir Klitschko.

Speaking to Stats Perform News, he explained those lessons learned underneath headguards from a decade ago will not have left either man.

"They've got history, they know each other," he explained, before pointing towards Joshua's rollercoaster win over a veteran Klitschko at Wembley three years ago.

"It won't go the way people think it will go. It's just like when Wladimir fought Anthony Joshua.

"They had history, we all had history because we all used to go to Austria and spar together. That was the central hub for all great fighters who wanted to get in with great fighters.

"AJ and Klitschko had history, Fury and AJ got history. If they never had history then I know who I would bet my money on, but they have history and they know what to look for, what to expect and what not to expect. The strengths, the weaknesses, the speed, the power they know that already.

"That's the thing about us fighters. We need each other for great sparring but then we've got to mess around and fight each other. It's a gift and a curse.

"If someone knows you and you know that person it's a game of chess. I know your moves, I know how you are, how fast you move your pieces on the board, I know how distracting this could be and you know the same about me. So how can you say who's better?

"It's the type of fight, just like Klitschko and AJ at Wembley. I was there and I couldn't bet a dollar because I knew they knew each other."

Nevertheless, there seems little doubt where Johnson's loyalties would lie if the blockbuster bout comes to pass.

After facing Fury, he became well acquainted with 'The Gypsy King' and his fighting family most notably his cousin and fellow heavyweight Hughie Fury and uncle and former trainer Peter Fury.

"The Furys are my favourite team in the whole world. Not only did they open their gym up to me, they opened their home up to me," Johnson recalled. "Those arethe most humbling stories.

"When I had the fight coming up with Anthony Joshua, Peter called me and said come on over and they'd help me out.

"We were running every morning, one hour uphill on a road in Bolton. We did everything together.

"I had Tyson Fury, I had Hughie Fury. I was sparring with everyone.

"If anybody ever says anything about Furys, they've got a problem with me."

Johnson will fight fellow former world-title challenger Mariusz Wach at a behind-closed-doors event in Poland next Friday, as boxing emerges from the COVID-19 shutdown.

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Beginning June 2, Titled Tuesday will be part of the Speed Chess Championship Grand Prixas a direct path to qualify for the 2020 Speed Chess Championship. The SCC GP is presented by Gambit,where you can in classic games like Reversi, Backgammon and Oh Ship by playing with players from around the world! Over the next five months, titled players around the world will earn grand prix points each week to inch closer to one of four coveted spots in the Speed Chess Championship.

Titled Tuesdays will have a $50,000 prize fund spanning 20 weeks, and will take place every Tuesday from June 2 through October 13. As an enhancement to the existing Titled Tuesday format, the 10-round Swiss tournament will now be followed by an eight player bracket to award bonus points and cash prizes.

With $2,500 in cash prizes available every week, players will look to improve their season score, as their eight best individual performances and all bonus points will count towards the Speed Chess Championship Titled Tuesday standings. At the end of the season, the players with the four best grand prix scores will advance to the Speed Chess Championship to be hosted later this year.

Players that win at least one of the twenty Titled Tuesday events but fail to finish in the top four will receive an automatic invite to a special qualification event, which will award one spot to the Speed Chess Championship this fall.

As a Fair Play measure, all competitors in this event are required to have their full legal name in their Chess.com profile. Anonymous titled player accounts or accounts found to be using a fake name will not be eligible to win prizes or earn points during the event.

All players are to abide by all rules and site policies found at Chess.com/agreement and cooperate fully with Chess.com's fair play detection team. Participants should be prepared to join a ZOOM call for proctoring at the arbiter's discretion.

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If your account is further convicted of fair-play violations, your account will be closed and you will be subject to Chess.com's private proceedings. You can find here more information on Chess.com's Fair Play and Cheat Detection methods.

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Tournament information and details regarding the special qualification event will be released later this summer as the end of the Speed Chess Championship Titled Tuesday approaches.

This qualifier will see one top Titled Tuesday performer qualify directly into the Speed Chess Championship due to their clutch performance finishing first in one of the 20 Titled Tuesday events.

All players must identify themselves in their Chess.com profile to win prizes. This must be done before the first round starts.See further requirements above.

Cash prizes are distributed among the top eight players, pending participation in the Titled Tuesday Post-Tournament Bracket.

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Points will be awarded to the top finishers each week. All players who finish in the top 20 during each Titled Tuesday (including players tied for 20th place) will earn points based on their score out of ten rounds. With each win being worth one point, and each draw being worth half a point, this means a player cannot earn more than 10 points in any given Titled Tuesday.

The top eight players that advance to the post-tournament bracket can earn additional points on top of what they earned in Titled Tuesday. Players earn two points for reaching the quarterfinals, four points for reaching the semifinals, eight points for finishing second place, and 12 points for winning the event.

Throughout the season, a player's Titled Tuesday grand prix score is comprised of a combination of select Titled Tuesday performances and post-tournament bracket points. Each player's eight best Titled Tuesday performances will be added together for their Swiss grand prix score. All additional points earned during the post-tournament bracket will be added to each player's Titled Tuesday score to determine their total Titled Tuesday grand prix points.

This means that while a player's final score can only include eight Titled Tuesday performances, they can earn additional post-tournament bracket points from more than eight events.

Tune into this Tuesday's all-new Titled Tuesday onChess.com/tvbeginning this upcoming Tuesday, June 2 at 10 am PT.

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Teacher Chalkboard

from Professional Educators of Tennessee

By JC Bowman,

Executive Director

In chess, each player begins the game with the same 16 pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, two knights, two bishops, and eight pawns. The most powerful chess piece is the queen, and the least powerful piece is the pawn. The object is to capture your opponents king. To reach this objective, a players pieces are used to attack and capture your opponents pieces, while at the same time supporting your own pieces and protecting your king.

Politics and public policy are like chess. Unlike chess, politics is not a polite and gentle game. In fact, politics is a blood sport in many circles, where victors vanquish their foes. It isnt as if this is some current phenomena either; Yale University historian Joanne B. Freeman writes in her book, The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War, that 19th-century House and Senate members were a rough crowd. Freeman states they were frequently drunk, often armed, and quick to take offense and political disagreements regularly turned physical.

It could be reasoned that today is mild in comparison, but I am also not certain we are far from the actions of our ancestors; we have simply traded weapons for keyboards. It is worth remembering that you cannot make friends of your enemies by making enemies of your friends. Too often politicians do not understand their own base of support and lose their followers. It may be from clinging too long to wrong ideas, or not engaging directly with people who may share similar ideas but offer differing approaches to solutions.

Morton Blackwell summarizes political conflict this way: To succeed inside a political party, one must cultivate an ability to sit still and remain polite while foolish people speak nonsense.

That is probably easier said than done.

Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius had two rules in dealing with differing opinions: The first rule was to keep an untroubled spirit. The second was to look things in the face and know them for what they are. In other words, dont be bothered by opposing ideas and keep to your principles. We are all shaken by circumstances and frightened by challenges. No person, no organization, nor any political party has all the answers.

I would argue that civility actually matters in politics.

Ravi Zacharias nailed this issue when he said: respect for the right of another to be wrong does not mean that the wrong is right.

We need more statesmanship in our world. Statesmanship is not just playing the game of politics well, but making that very game possible.

Wendell Coats describes statesmanship as an activity directed toward securing the conditions for politics to occur, as the basis for agreement about general courses of action, and for moderate reconciliation of differences among fellow citizens.

The same is true in public policy we must account for differing opinions.

Good policy is intertwined with good politics. Never personalize the issue. Instead of screaming at each other from opposite sides of the political spectrum, imagine policies focused on helping those it is designed to help. When it comes to dealing with COVID-19 Pandemic issues, taking a long-range view, as we have on other policy issues, will require years of fiscal discipline, policy prudence, and deep community engagement. In education policy, we have to maintain funding for public education, which gives impetus to our economy. It is good policy, as well as good politics.

Choose your battles carefully in politics, and fight for what really matters. Not every issue or personnel matter is important; however, it is true personnel is policy, because the people you place in leadership roles make decisions that either support or hurt your agenda. While we should strive to have a diversified group of people to help build consensus, it does not serve the public to have a contentious leader in charge of an area that makes you lose ground in policy areas, or with your political base. Every problem in politics or public policy requires your time, energy, and political capital.

Sally Percy, writing in Forbes Magazine, asks a very thoughtful question leaders must always ask: Is this your battle to fight?

In discussing chess, Rudolph Spielmann writes about the goal: Play the opening like a book, the middlegame like a magician, and the endgame like a machine.

Chess is a journey of pain, sacrifices, determination, and triumph. It can be argued that it mirrors the public policy process. Just like politics, you may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win.

JC Bowman is executive director of Professional Educators of Tennessee, a non-partisan teacher association headquartered in Nashville.

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