Alexis Marshall
Alexis Marshall is WPLN News’s education reporter. She is a Middle Tennessee native and started listening to WPLN as a high schooler in Murfreesboro. She got her start in public radio freelance producing for NPR and reporting at WMOT, the on-campus station at MTSU. She was the reporting intern at WPLN News in the fall of 2018 and afterward an intern on NPR’s Education Desk. Alexis returned to WPLN in 2020 as a newscast producer and took over the education beat in 2022. Marshall contributes regularly to WPLN's partnership with Nashville Noticias, a Spanish language news program, and studies Arabic. When she's not reporting, you can find her cooking, crocheting or foraging for mushrooms.
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It’s the first new school year since Tennessee passed a law requiring schools to out transgender students to their parents. Gov. Bill Lee signed the measure into law in May. -
At a Tennessee summer camp, children who stutter find acceptance and build confidence in their communication skills. Its purpose isn't to get rid of their stutters, but let them be themselves.
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Third and fourth graders in Tennessee just logged their highest English Language Arts proficiency rates since the state test was revised in 2017. Still, more than half of students in both grade levels fell short of state standards. -
Tennesseans sought to remove hundreds of books from library shelves in 2023, many of them containing LGTBQ+ characters or themes. But some activists and librarians are fighting to keep them in circulation. -
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Time is of the essence for lawmakers championing universal private school vouchers. Committees in both the state House and Senate this week put off considering proposals that would bring vouchers to families across Tennessee.
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A year after the shooting at a Nashville private school, more money for security has been the only response from state lawmakers.
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It's been nearly a year since six people — including three students — were killed in a mass shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville. While the Tennessee legislature hasn’t passed major gun reform, it did approve millions in state funds for security, including dedicated funds for private schools. -
After more than four hours, tense exchanges and numerous objections, a key House committee passed a sweeping, controversial school voucher bill on Wednesday. Meanwhile the Senate version cleared its first hurdle in the Education Committee with relative ease. -
Lawmakers are now in their second week of weighing competing proposals to expand private school vouchers across Tennessee.
