News Briefs
In his sixth State of the State address, Gov. Bredesen announced a $27.8 billion budget plan for fiscal 2009 that would keep spending flat in most areas but give modest increases for some education initiatives.
February 5, 2008
Much of the revenue is to be spent at schools that serve high numbers of children deemed at risk of failure.
June 19, 2007
In his fifth State of the State address, Gov. Phil Bredesen pledged to use the proposed cigarette-tax increase to provide $120 million to schools that serve many children deemed at risk of school failure.
February 13, 2007
Gov. Phil Bredesen of Tennessee announced a proposal last week to raise the state’s high school graduation rate to 90 percent by 2012—a move he had promised in his State of the State Address earlier this year.
September 19, 2006
Gov. Phil Bredesen’s push to expand Tennessee’s voluntary prekindergarten program won legislative approval in this year’s session, assuring that $20 million in new spending will be provided this school year to pay for 5,000 additional 4-year-olds.
August 29, 2006
Students in a Tennessee school system will have to make up for two days of classes that district leaders said they canceled to save on fuel costs, according to the state education department.
May 9, 2006
The district is trying to steady itself in the wake of controversies that have rocked its operations side, potentially complicating its search for a new superintendent.
January 8, 2008
Controversy may complicate its search for a new superintendent and renew talk of putting the city’s mayor in charge.
December 28, 2007
An extreme heat wave putting temperatures as high as 102 degrees in the South and Midwest United States has prompted a rash of school closings.
August 28, 2007
Peer-to-peer curriculum development helps sustain teacher workforce in small towns where it is hard to attract new educators.
July 11, 2007
Study finds a majority of award recipients fail to make the grade.
January 26, 2007
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal by a state high school athletic association over whether its rules restricting the recruitment of student-athletes conflict with the free-speech rights of its member schools under the First Amendment.
January 17, 2007
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal by a state high school athletic association over whether the group's rules restricting the recruitment of student-athletes conflict with the First Amendment free speech rights of its member schools.
January 8, 2007
Whether high school students take college-admissions tests used to be an individual decision. But a growing number of states are requiring that step and even making the exams a core part of their own testing systems.
September 12, 2006
The Department of Education last week chose North Carolina and Tennessee as the first states for a pilot program that will allow them to measure adequate yearly progress under the No Child Left Behind Act based on the academic growth that students show from year to year.
May 23, 2006
Updated: December 28, 2006
