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  Few third- and fourth-graders are being retained under Tennessee reading law, data shows

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  Some 60% of Tennessee third-grade students scored below proficiency in English language arts on 2024 state tests. Fewer than than 1% of them were …

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  Tennessee K-12 school building costs escalate amid competing political priorities for education

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  Tennessee needs to spend about $9.8 billion on repairs, upgrades, or construction to keep its K-12 public school buildings safe and conducive to …

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  List of nearly 400 purged library books is circulating among Tennessee school districts

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  One Tennessee school district’s list of nearly 400 books removed from library shelves, including titles by authors ranging from Dr. Seuss to Toni …

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  Tennessee governor backs Trump plan to abolish U.S. Department of Education

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  Gov. Bill Lee said Wednesday that he’d welcome closing the U.S. Department of Education under President-elect Donald Trump’s administration, adding …

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  Tennessee teachers scoff at proposed bonuses linked to Gov. Lee’s school voucher plan

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  Gov. Bill Lee, who’s trying again to enact his statewide private school voucher plan, is hoping to win over critics and skeptics with a $2,000 bonus …

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  Tennessee’s new universal school voucher plan has GOP leaders on the same page

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  Seven months after Gov. Bill Lee’s first universal school voucher bill died over disagreements within the legislature’s Republican supermajority, GOP …