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WhenPhoenix-basedGreatHeartsAcademiespitched a charter school inWestNashville after apush by affluent parents, it sparked a raging de-bate last summer.

Now, a year later, another charter group islooking to break new ground here by tailoring aschool for all economic backgrounds, includingmiddle andupper class—and this time, there areno signs of a looming fight.

In fact, some are already praising it for enter-ing Nashville in a way Great Hearts didn’t.

Valor Collegiate Academy, a fifth- through12th-grade school proposed by California trans-plant ToddDickson, whomMayorKarlDean per-sonally recruited to Nashville, is one of six char-terapplicationsset forconsiderationat theMetroschool board’s June 25 meeting.

In a city where students at publicly financed,privately ledchartersarealmostexclusively low-income, Dickson’s plan sticks out: He wants tocreate a “mixed model” both ethnically and eco-nomically.

“My hope is that it would be a school that par-ents from any background would be interestedin,” said Dickson, who has lived in Nashville forthepast10months,workingasa fellowat theTen-

Charterplan hasdiversityat heartAfter Great Hearts failure,proposal seeks ‘mixed model’ethnically and economicallyBy Joey GarrisonThe Tennessean

» CHARTER, 5A

MANCHESTER — The Bonnaroo vibe is sweat,hangovers and mud between your toes.

It’s the electricity that first guitar lick in asound check sends ricocheting through thegrounds.

And it’s people from everywhere, of all back-grounds and ages, gathering to hear diversegenres of music and pretty much all get along.

For12yearsnow,Bonnaroohasgatheredabout80,000 people — from college students in feath-ered bird suits to sensiblemusic lovers in breath-able athletic gear — all for music and entertain-ment.

This year, they came to see a 70-year-old leg-end rock the main stage for nearly three hours.Paul McCartney’s youngest fans at Bonnaroowere born more than 20 years after The Beatlescalled it quits. Still, they were given the opportu-nity—and they took it— to rock along to the1966song “PaperbackWriter” performed on the sameguitar it was recorded with.

Festivalgoers also came to see another set oflegends on Sunday, the final night of the festival:

NO BACKING DOWN

Rock ’n’ roll mainstays Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers play the closing concert at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festivalon Sunday in Manchester, Tenn. JOHN PARTIPILO / THE TENNESSEAN

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Bonnaroo fest’s 2013 editionagain illustrates the kindredspirits that make event rockBy Jennifer JustusThe Tennessean

Chelsea McCarty of Kentucky listens toMacklemore play during the Bonnaroo Music& Arts Festival. HELEN COMER / GANNETT TENNESSEE

» BONNAROO, 3A

GULF SHORES, Ala. —Finding tar balls linked tothe BP oil spill isn’t difficult on some Gulf Coastbeaches, but the British oil giant and the govern-ment say it isn’t common enough to keep sendingout the crews that patrolled the sand for threeyears in Alabama, Florida andMississippi.

Tourist JohnHensonofAtlantadisagrees, par-ticularly after going for a walk in the surf lastweek and comingbackwith dark, sticky stains onhis feet.

Henson said there were plenty of tar balls toremove from the stretch of beachwhere he spenta few days.

Patrols ended this monthEnvironmental advocates and casual visitors

alike are questioning the Coast Guard’s decisionto quit sending out BP-funded crews that havelooked for oil deposits on northern Gulf Coastbeaches on a regular basis since the 2010 spillspewed millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf af-ter an explosion and fire that killed 11workers.

The patrols ended this month as coastal mon-itoring reverted to theway it operated before the

BP ends cleanupcrews in the GulfBy Jay ReevesAssociated Press

» BP, 8A

In post-Great Recession Ameri-ca, which is the bigger barrier to op-portunity — race or class?

A decade ago, the U.S. SupremeCourtkept thefocusonraceasabar-rier, upholding the right of collegestomake limited use of racial prefer-ences to ensure a diverse student

body. But in a ruling due thismonth,the court could roll back that deci-sion. Such an outcome would shiftattention more toward a less consti-tutionally controversial practice:giving a boost to socio-economicallydisadvantaged students, regardlessof race.

If that happens, it would reflectmore than just a more conservativemakeupof the justices.Over the lastdecade, clogged social mobility andrising economic inequality haveshifted the conversation on campus-es and in the country as a whole.

As a barrier to opportunity, classis gettingmore attention, while race

is fading.“The cultural zeitgeist has

changed,” said Peter Sacks, authorof the book “Tearing Down theGates: Confronting the Class Dividein American Education.”

“The Great Recession really ex-acerbated the vast and growing in-equalities between rich and poor inAmerica,” he said.

The shift is perceptible in a rangeof ways:

» You can see it in polling, likesurveys from the Pew ResearchCenter, which shows the percentage

Affirmative action cause debatedObservers say it’smore about classthan race these daysBy Justin PopeAssociated Press

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After four long days andnights in Manchester, Tenn. —where 80,000 music loverssoaked up sounds rangingfrom rock to rap, country, folkand electronica — it was up toTom Petty and The Heart-breakers to close the 2013Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festi-val with a set stocked withtime-tested rock classics.

“How ya doing?” Pettyasked the sea of fans assem-bled at Bonnaroo’s main stagea fewminutes after 9 p.m.“Oh, it’s nice to be here inTennessee with all you people.Let’s do one we can all singright here.” Petty picked agood one— “I Won’t BackDown”—with fans echoingits “Hey baby” refrainthrough the field

It wasn’t five seconds afterthe song sounded its finalchord that the sky opened upfor a brief downpour — butPetty and The Heartbreakerscontinued to plow throughtunes, and fans dried off tothe familiar strains of “HereComesMy Girl” and crowdfavorite “Last Dance withMary Jane.”

After that song, Petty pre-dicted that he, his band andthe audience would have “an

incredible time tonight.”“I don’t have to be any-

where for hours,” he said witha grin.

The band was one of threeheadliners at the 12th annualfestival — held Thursdaythrough Sunday in Manches-

ter — along with Paul McCart-ney and singer/songwriterJack Johnson, who was an11th-hour replacement forBritish folk-rockers Mumford& Sons.

—Dave PaulsonThe Tennessean

Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers played through a short rain showeras Bonnaroo came to an end. JOHN PARTIPILO / THE TENNESSEAN

Petty brings festival to closeBlake Shelton is ready to

show Nashville fans justwhat it means to be the

CountryMusic Asso-ciation’sentertainerof the year.

SheltonannouncedFriday thathe willheadlineBridge-

stone Arena for the firsttime Sept. 14. Easton Corbinand Jana Kramerwill openShelton’s Ten Times CrazierTour. Tickets are $25-$54.75and go on sale at 10 a.m.Friday through Ticketmas-ter (1-800-745-3000).

“With ‘The Voice’ sched-ule, I was not able to go outand perform as much as Iwanted last year, but I planto make up for it this year,”Shelton said in a release.“This summer is going to bea blast. I want everyone atmy shows to leave feelinglike they got every penny’sworth of their ticket.”

—Cindy WattsThe Tennessean

Shelton tourto be in town

Blake Shelton

Sunday marked KaceyMusgraves’ first visit to Bon-naroo — in accordance withthe law, at least.

The rising country starexplained to fans gatheredunder a hot sun at the Whichstage that she had been to thefestival once before —whenshe snuck in to see Nine InchNails perform on the samestage.

“But I don’t really remem-ber a lot of it,” she said with a

laugh, as many in the crowdhooted in approval.

Aside from genre vetDwight Yoakam, Musgraveswas the lone mainstreamcountry star on this year’s bill,and one that could uniquelyspeak the Bonnaroo audi-ence’s language.

But what really sets Mus-grave apart — and likelymade no shortage of new fans— is her own outspoken ma-terial, as heard on her hailed

major-label debut, “SameTrailer Different Park.” Setcloser “Follow Your Arrow”urged its listeners to “Makelots of noise/ Kiss lots of boys/Or kiss lots of girls/ If that'ssomething you're into.”

“I feel like whatever side ofthe coin you’re on, society’sgoing to have their own littleopinion about it. It doesn’treally matter. Just do whatyou do.”

—Dave Paulson

Musgraves doesn’t need to sneak in

Kacey Musgraves was a countryrarity at Bonnaroo this year.HELEN COMER / GANNETT TENNESSEE

Actor Peter Lupus (TV’s“Mission: Impossible”) is 81.

Singer Barry Manilow is 70.

Joe Piscopo is 62.

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TomPetty and TheHeart-breakers.

MichaelRegusci, 56, ofOroville, Calif., drove2,969 miles with his wife,his best friend, his bestfriend’s wife and theirdaughter to seeTomPettyforhis seventh time—butitwashis firstvisit toBon-naroo. He dressed for theoccasion inaPettyT-shirt,kilt, beads and beardpainted blue. He said hesprang for this trip in-stead of buying a new car.

“I’ve never been here,”he said. “I’ve had cars.”

Petty and the Heart-breakers kicked off theirset with “So You Want tobe a Rock ’n’ Roll Star,”and as the rain began topepperdown, hewas sing-ing “I Won’t Back Down”to keep the fans floodinginto the main stage area.

Matt Gervais, 29, ofNewYorkCity, traveledtoManchester to see lesser-known bands Animal Col-lective andMatt andKim.

“It was awesome. Thisis my sixth one,” Gervaissaid. “The reason I feellike Bonnaroo is so muchdifferent from other mu-sic festivals is everyone isso friendly.”

Unfortunate events:deaths, arrests

Unfortunately, anevent this size doesn’t of-ten go without incidents.Brandon Wilson, 28, andDeja Morris, 25, werekilled in a nine-car pileupin Murfreesboro earlyThursday while drivingfromIndiana for the festi-val. Officers charged asemi-trailer driver in-volved in the crash withfailure to exercise due

care.Two California men

heading toBonnaroowerebusted during a pit stop inNashville with cocaine,hallucinogenic mush-rooms, prescription pillsand marijuana, policesaid.

The Coffee Countysheriff’s command posthad no major incidencesto report late Sunday.

There were musicaltroubles, too. One of theheadliners, Mumford &Sons, pulled out of theirSaturday-night perfor-mance because of bassistTed Dwane’s emergencybrain surgery. Jack John-son,a folk-rocksingerandBonnaroo veteran, whoperformedat the first fes-tival in 2002andagainasaheadliner in 2008, steppedin at the lastmoment eventhough his band had notplayed together live inmore than a year.

But Johnson and bandhad a warm-up in Nash-ville earlier that day, re-cording a live album at

Jack White’s Third ManRecords. Johnson dedi-catedhis set toTedDwaneof Mumford & Sons andnotedthathehopes toplaywith the band in the fu-ture, nodding to Bonna-roo’s collaborative spirit.

He played a song hewrote about the situation:

“The phone rang andthings got strange

“My lowpro’was aboutto change

“ ‘Can you get the bandtogether in two days

“To play a show up onthe main stage?’ ”

Organizers continueimprovements

Over the past 12 years,festival organizers havecontinued to makechanges to the propertyand the event in an effort

to improve infrastructureand boost the entertain-ment factor. In the pasttwo years, they plantedBermuda grass for bettercoverage (and less mud).They increased the num-ber of freedrinkingwaterstations to 10 last year toencourage patrons to fillreusable water devices.

In recent years,they’ve shielded portabletoilets from sun, reducingthe temperature in thoseareasbyabout10degrees.This year, they also addeda 5K run with a routethrough the Bonnaroogrounds that drew morethan 1,000 participants.

Also this year, Bonna-rooaddedaday-ticketandshuttle service fromNashville, which sold outjust before the event be-gan, along with all othertickets available.

This morning, Bonna-roovians will scatter backto their everyday lives —sortof like theyscatteraf-ter performances, criss-crossing paths to beelinetoward their next favoriteperformers. It’s celebrat-ing that independenceand thosedifferences thatkeeps the communitycoming together.

As Nashville’s KaceyMusgraves sang the lastday of the festival, in herfirst Bonnaroo appear-ance: “Just followyourar-row, wherever it points.”

Contact Jennifer Justus atjjustus@tennessean.com or615-259-8072.

Bonnaroo fans hail from all over» BONNAROO FROM 1A

Ed Helms’ Bluegrass Situation, led by the actor/comedianperhaps best known as Andy Bernard on “The Office,”performs at Bonnaroo. HELEN COMER / GANNETT TENNESSEE