Mid Year Media Review
Gov. Bill Lee is considering convening a special legislative session to address charges of “overreach” by local officials as a growing number of Tennessee school districts require students and staff … Read More
A Washington, D.C.-based group representing two transgender students in Tennessee sued the state Tuesday over a new law that restricts which school bathrooms they can use. The Human Rights Campaign, … Read More
Former Tennessee Education Commissioner Candice McQueen is leaving her job as CEO of a national nonprofit education organization to become president of Lipscomb University in Nashville. Since 2019, McQueen has … Read More
Tennessee’s decision to halt all vaccine outreach for children and adolescents preparing to head back to school will cost lives and could balloon the state’s current resurgence of COVID cases, … Read More
Tennessee aims to get rid of vestiges of the politically sensitive Common Core academic standards, while also notifying students and their parents about their vaccination exemption rights, under dozens of … Read More
For months, Tennessee Republican lawmakers were hearing from dozens of parents concerned about how educators were trying to make their lessons more inclusive in response to the nation’s racial reckoning. … Read More
Gov. Bill Lee on Monday signed a bill into law that will restrict what public school teachers can discuss in Tennessee classrooms about racism, white privilege, and unconscious bias. The … Read More
Tennessee’s education department will spend the bulk of its $491 million share of one-time federal funding on new literacy, summer camp, and tutoring initiatives as the state seeks to accelerate … Read More
Since Tennessee’s first public charter schools opened in Memphis and Nashville in 2003, the state’s charter sector has been contained to its four largest cities. But that could change in … Read More
