Tennessee

With time running out, GOP leaders insist voucher bill is still in play

Century-old Humes was operated as a charter under the state’s unraveling Achievement School District.

Student testing is a sticking point as legislative leaders seek a compromise.

A Council of the Great City Schools leader said the team could be used as a model for other new superintendents

Charter networks, both inside and outside the state, are tracking the legislation.

‘People were damn mad,’ said one spectator who was asked to leave the chamber.

A consultant for Juvenile Court found that just half of students were attending class, and that the curriculum didn’t keep them on track for graduation.

After a colleague at her school left her job, Missy Testerman worried about who would advocate for immigrant families. So she switched gears in her educational career to fill the gap.

Meanwhile, new attempts to tighten the state’s lax gun laws fizzle.

GOP leaders acknowledge that the Achievement School District district had failed in its turnaround mission.

The three-minute computer-generated video, created by an anti-abortion group, has drawn concern from major medical organizations and sparked controversy in state legislatures in Tennessee and elsewhere.

Board members say the provisions in Marie Feagins’ agreement were necessary to protect the district.

Proposed legislation is meant to ‘expand what’s working,’ according to Memphis Rep. Mark White, the bill’s sponsor.

The proposal would widen criteria for determining which students could be held back — and give parents a say.

The Detroit schools administrator is already working with MSCS under a short-term contract.

Framed in the rhetoric of choice, Tennessee’s new law governing childhood vaccinations is among more than a dozen recently passed or pending nationwide that set parental freedom against community and children’s health.

University could use charter groups to expand its reach and replicate teaching and learning models.