tennessee education

A series of missteps by Tennessee's education commissioner and a perceived error in judgment by the governor is bringing greater scrutiny to the state’s ethics rules and relationships officials hold with lobbying groups.

The Tennessee Ethics Commission dismissed a sworn complaint against state Education Commissioner Lizzette Reynolds after she paid back more than $2,000 an education group spent to send her to two conferences.

Democrats in the Tennessee House are calling on Education Commissioner Lizzette Reynolds to resign.

A group representing teachers from across Tennessee has filed a lawsuit against state officials over a ban on certain “prohibited concepts” in the classroom. The law bans certain lessons about racism, gender and privilege. Plaintiffs in the suit say the policy interferes with teachers’ ability to do their jobs and “deprives students of a quality education.”

Tennessee’s legislature has tweaked its law aimed at improving third grade literacy. But the changes won’t take effect until next school year, and even then, they’re far from an overhaul. That means this year’s third graders will face the consequences of a law that parents, teachers and school district officials have spent months fighting to change.

A University of Tennessee at Martin Faculty Senate committee voted earlier this week to table a resolution the school’s Student Government Association passed last month condemning a pair of Tennessee bills as racist.

Juggling a job while being a child’s co-teacher is a struggle for any parent, but families who have students with disabilities say they’re seeing the…

Tennessee education officials are offering 20 grants of $100,000 apiece to form or expand programs that help train new teachers at no cost to them. The…

More details are coming out as Tennessee prepares to launch the Education Savings Account program in Shelby and Davidson counties.In a legislative hearing…

The Tennessee State Board of Education is seeking public comment on the state's K-12 mathematics standards.A news release from the board says the comments…