District management

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• Budget & finance

Does Tennessee’s education funding blueprint deliver on governor’s promises? Maybe, but ‘the devil’s in the details’

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• Remote learning

Tennessee shortens how long schools can shift to remote learning from COVID

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• Politics & Policy

Tennessee nails down rules for disciplining teachers, withholding money from schools that teach banned concepts about racism

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• COVID safety

‘Mask whiplash’ hits Tennessee students adjusting to conflicting mandate orders

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• Coronavirus Tennessee

Tennessee governor signs law rolling back school mask mandates

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• School boards

Proposal to turn school board races partisan clears Tennessee legislature

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• Statehouse policy and politics

GOP lawmakers race to roll back COVID restrictions in Tennessee schools, businesses

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• Politics & Policy

Tennessee governor calls for review of state education funding formula

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• Charters & Choice

Charter school appeals to go before new Tennessee commission for the first time

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• COVID safety

Despite COVID, most Tennessee parents are upbeat about school this year, poll says

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• Budget & finance

Tennessee’s lingering school funding trial is reset before a new court

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• Remote learning

Schwinn approves 8 waivers allowing some Tennessee schools to shift to remote learning temporarily

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• Remote learning

Tennessee governor says no again as some school leaders clamor for remote learning

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• Remote learning

As pediatric COVID cases climb, Memphis parents fume over Tennessee’s new restrictions on remote learning

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• Assessment and testing

Tennessee’s pandemic test scores dropped, but especially in Memphis and Nashville

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• COVID safety

Mask confusion reigns as Tennessee goes back to school amid COVID surge

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• Coronavirus

Tennessee House speaker threatens districts that close school buildings or require masks with vouchers

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• Turnaround

Tennessee will reboot search for school turnaround superintendent amid leadership churn in Achievement School District

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• Turnaround

Memphis has school turnaround lessons for the nation, say organizers of virtual conference

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• Teaching & Classroom

Schwinn: Guidance for what Tennessee teachers can and can’t teach on race will come by Aug. 1

Memphis school leaders take a second look at budget after Shelby County rejects proposal for facilities increase

More than 50% of new Memphis teachers quit. Here’s what the district is doing to reverse the trend.

Fight for $15: Shelby County Schools has yet to give a living wage to all employees

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• Charters & Choice

Gov. Lee’s charter school expansion mission aims beyond Tennessee’s big cities

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• Turnaround

Plan for exiting schools from Tennessee turnaround district will head to governor’s desk

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• Coronavirus

Tennessee governor’s order ending mask mandates doesn’t apply to schools

Closings, mergers, and expansions: Memphis superintendent proposes transformation of district school buildings

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• Politics & Policy

Legislation pulled but mission accomplished: Memphis and Germantown leaders will discuss future of suburban schools

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• Politics & Policy

Memphis-Germantown dispute over suburban schools should be settled locally, says Tennessee lawmaker

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• Politics & Policy

School district takeover proposal stalls — for now — in Tennessee legislature

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• Politics & Policy

Reversing course, Senate panel advances bill forcing Memphis district to transfer Germantown schools

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• District management

District takeover proposal advances in Tennessee legislature, as opponents warn of a ‘power grab’