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.
A bill to create a scholarship program to help Tennessee s low- and middle-income families pay for high-quality early child care cleared its first legislative hurdle even as some lawmakers questioned whether funding child care should be the state s responsibility.
A proposal to create a scholarship program to help Tennessee’s low- and middle-income families pay for high-quality early child care cleared its first legislative hurdle Wednesday.
When House Speaker Cameron Sexton recently floated the idea of Tennessee rejecting U.S. education dollars to free its schools from federal rules and restrictions, he made the pivot sound as simple as making up the difference with $1.8 billion in state funds.
When House Speaker Cameron Sexton floated the idea of Tennessee rejecting U.S. education dollars to free its schools from federal restrictions, he made it sound simple. It’s not.