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Tennessee State Senator Bo Watson Stressed The Importance Of In-Person Learning For Students At A Recent Friends Of Hixson Meeting. Watson Believes That School Districts That Prioritized Having Students In School Recovered Quicker.
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Most Teens Prefer In-Person Learning Over Virtual Or Hybrid Learning, A New Poll From The Pew Research Center Found.
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Expanding Options For School Choice Is Increasingly Supported By Tennessee Parents According To Polls, Especially After Seeing How Their Children’s Education Has Suffered During The Pandemic.
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As The Hamilton County School District Reports Rising Numbers Of Covid Cases In Schools, The School Board Is Attempting To Compensate Teachers For Extra Duties Incurred As A Result Of Staffing Shortages.
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A Bill That Could Allow Parents To Utilize School Vouchers For Private Or Charter Schools Cleared The Senate Education Committee On Wednesday.
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With Educators Recommending Strategies Such As Summer School And Extended School Days To Help Students Catch Up From Last Year, It’s Not Surprising That The Issue Of Top Concern In Relation To COVID-19 In The 2021 TES Was Students Missing Out On Instructional Time During The School Year.
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Education Commissioner Penny Schwinn Has Granted Eight Of 14 Waiver Requests From Tennessee School Leaders Wanting To Switch Temporarily To Remote Learning Under A COVID Response Plan That Began This Week.
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For Well Over A Year Now, We Have Seen The Negative Impact Of Government Mandates On Businesses And Families In Response To This Virus. But There Can Be No Doubt That Our Students Here In Tennessee Have Been Some Of The Hardest Hit And They Have The Scars To Prove It. The Latest TCAP Results Show That Less Than 30% Of Our Students Across The State Are Reading And Understanding Math Simply At Their Own Grade Level. And For The Most Part, We Know That We Can Blame The Lack Of In-person Learning Over The Prior School Year. Yet, We Are Now Heading In That Same Direction For The 2021-2022 School Year.
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1) Trump Joins Gov. Abbott At Border Security Briefing
2) Gas Prices Hit 7-Year High Ahead Of July 4th Weekend
3) Nashville Record Executive Files Second Lawsuit Against Transgender Bathroom Law
4) Online College In Tennessee More Expensive Than Attending In Person
College Students In Tennessee Pay More To Do Their Schooling Online Than They Do To Attend Courses In Person, A Report From The Tennessee Comptroller’s Office Of Research And Education Accountability Showed.
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