Legislation
898 Tennessee students retained due to third-grade reading law(The Center Square) – Tennessee ultimately retained 898 statewide due to its new third-grade reading retention law. Less than 40% of third-graders statewide scored high enough on the Tennessee Comprehensive… Read More
Public Education
New analysis considers impact of Tennessee rejecting federal K-12 education funding(The Center Square) – No state has ever rejected federal funding for K-12 education, so when Tennessee looks at potentially doing that in a committee over the next few weeks… Read More
Courts
Tennessee AG sues HHS for ‘attempting to coerce states into pro-abortion policy with the funding denials’(The Center Square) – Tennessee is suing the federal government over its denial of Title X family planning funding to the state. Instead, the U.S. Department of Health and Human… Read More
Public Education
Legislative committee taking deep look at costs as it considers rejecting federal education funding in Tennessee(The Center Square) – As members of a committee sit down to analyze the impact of federal funding on Tennessee’s K-12 schools, they will be diving in depth into numbers… Read More
Public Education
Tennessee legislators to look into rejecting federal school funding in November(The Center Square) – With additional COVID-19 federal K-12 school funding winding down, Tennessee continues its look at what school funding would look like without federal dollars, which amounted to… Read More