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Governor:Bill Haslam
Commissioner of Education:Kevin Huffman
Quality Counts state grade:C+
Pre-K-12 enrollment:987,422
Number of school districts:140
Number of public schools:1,784
Number of public school teachers:66,558
Unadjusted education spending per student:$8,117
Percent minority students:32.7%
Percent of students eligible for free/reduced price lunch:55.0%
Percent of students with disabilities:12.1%
Percent of English-language learners:3.0%
NAEP Mathematics 2011 percent proficient
4th grade math:29.5%
8th grade math:23.9%
NAEP Reading 2011 percent proficient
4th grade reading:25.8%
8th grade reading:27.0%

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March 31, 1993 - Education Week
February 26, 1992 - Education Week

Tennessee legislators, whose long hours in 1991 yielded only stalled education- and tax-reform efforts, last week began a special session that observers predict will at last produce a major new school-reform law.

January 22, 1992 - Education Week
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