Tenn. Private Schools Press To Alter Rule for Sports Eligibility
A dispute over an athletic-eligibility rule has kicked off the fall sports season in Tennessee high schools and left many private school officials feeling cheated and misunderstood.
The group that governs the state's secondary school athletics limits the number of students receiving financial aid who can participate in interscholastic sports.
The decade-old "financial-aid quota rule" is designed to discourage athletic recruiting by private schools. The rule states that, regardless of a school's size, a maximum of 14 male and 11 female students receiving financial aid can play on teams sanctioned by the Tennessee...
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