Tennessee’s legislature raced to complete its business early for the year while refusing to take up gun reform legislation after a mass shooting at a Nashville school.
Current third graders, who were in kindergarten when the pandemic began, face the highest stakes when Tennessee’s TCAP testing window opens on April 17.
The Tennessee House is poised to expel three Democrats for the way they protested the body’s failure to pursue significant gun reforms after the March 27 Nashville school shooting.
The likelihood that lawmakers will take up bills to restrict or expand access to guns this year dimmed Tuesday after a Senate committee voted to delay consideration until 2024.
Hundreds of protesters, mostly students, flooded Tennessee’s Capitol Thursday calling for stricter gun laws, days after an armed intruder killed six people at a Nashville school.