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Critics Of A Plan To Consider Rejecting Upwards Of $1.9 Billion In Federal Education Funds Say The Idea Would Undermine Public Schools In Favor Of Private And Charter School Operators.
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Federal Funding Previously Lost By The State Will Be Returned, But It Is Not Headed To The State Health Department. Instead, That Money Will Be Funneled Through Planned Parenthood Of Tennessee And North Mississippi.
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A New Trio Of U.S. House Education Bills Would Push Back On Critical Race Theory And Federal Rules In Local Public Schools, The Latest In An Ongoing Battle Led By Republicans To Respond To Curriculum And Policy Changes In Education.
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Tennessee Is Expected To Receive $8.0 Billion Federal Infrastructure Investment. Adjusting For Population, This Comes Out To About $1,151 Per Capita, The Ninth Lowest Among The 50 States.
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Tennessee’s K-12 Schools Received $1.1 Billion In Federal Funds In Financial Year 2019, The Last Before Additional Covid-19 Pandemic Federal Funds Began, According To A Policy Brief From The Non-Profit Sycamore Institute.
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House Speaker Cameron Sexton Is Looking Into The Creation Of A Task Force To Determine Whether It Would Be Feasible For Tennessee To Reject Federal Education Funding In An Attempt To Eliminate Federal Regulation Of State Public Schools.
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House Speaker Cameron Sexton Says It’s Time For Tennessee To Stop Taking Federal Funding For K-12 Education So The State Would No Longer Have “Federal Government Interference” In The Way Schools Are Run.
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Throughout The Federal Covid-19 Emergency, Tennessee’s Medicaid Service TennCare Has Been Barred From Removing Those Who Initially Qualified For Services. Starting On April 1, However, The Emergency Will End And So Will The Federal Matching Dollars That Went Into The Program.
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A Federal Watchdog Has Found That The Tennessee Coalition To End Domestic And Sexual Violence Unlawfully Retaliated Against And Then Forced Out An Employee Who Blew The Whistle About Potential Misuse Of Federal Funding.
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President Joe Biden Sparked Controversy For Pushing Through Congress Increased Federal Funding For 87,000 New IRS Employees To Audit Americans, But Republican Leadership Has Pledged To Overturn That Expansion If They Win The Majority.
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