Grading Scale Changes In Johnson City Schools To Begin In Third Grade

Earlier This Year, Tennessee Lawmakers Voted To Change The 7 Point Grading Scale Used Throughout The State’s High Schools And Establish The 10 Point Scale As Standard. To Comply With The New Law, The Johnson City Board Of Education Is Changing Their Grading System To Align With The 10 Point Scale But Are Going One Step Further By Applying It To All Students Beginning In The Third Grade, Not Just High School Students.

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Johnson City’s Struggling Broadband Program Should Be A Warning To Tennessee [Op-Ed]

There’s A New Trend Sweeping Across Tennessee, And It’s Not A New Dance High Schoolers Have Learned On Social Media. In Fact It’s An Even Bigger Waste Of Time And Could Negatively Affect You And Your Neighbors. I’m Talking, Of Course, About Government-Owned Internet.

To Some, It Sounds Nice On Paper. Who Doesn’t Want More Internet Offerings? Isn’t Increasing Internet Access Critical In An Increasingly Online Society? Yes, But Like Any Government Project, The Devil Is In The Details, And The Details Have Been Grim For Consumers. That’s Not Conjecture, It’s Fact: Just Look At The Numbers In Johnson City.

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Tennessee Gas Prices Set Record High, But Still Below National Average

The Average Price-Per Gallon Of Unleaded Gasoline In Tennessee Reached A Record High $4.13 On Tuesday, A Cent Higher Than The Previous Record Set In March, According To The American Automobile Association.

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Beacon Center’s 2021 Pork Report Highlights Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars Of Waste, Fraud & Abuse In TN

The Beacon Center Of Tennessee Has Released This Year’s “Pork Report” In An Appropriately-Themed “Recipe Book” Entitled 12 Recipes For Government Waste, Fraud And Abuse. The Tongue-In-Cheek Recipes Lay Out The Problems And Offer Up Workable Conservative Solutions.

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Hancock County Schools To Implement New Mask Mandate

On Tuesday, August 3, Hancock County Schools Announced That They Would Be The Only School System In Northeast Tennessee To Require Masks.

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Governor’s Tourism Campaign Pays Thousands To Social Media Influencers

Tennessee Invested Thousands Of Dollars For Social Media Influencers To Promote The State’s New “Tennessee On Me” Tourism Campaign. The New Program, Funded With $2.5 Million Dollars Of Taxpayer Money, Provides Flight Vouchers To Individuals Flying Into One Of Several Major Tennessee Cities.

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Clarksville Among Country’s Fastest-Growing Metro Areas

A Recent Report Shows That While The Nashville-Davidson-Murfreesboro-Franklin Metro Area Is One Of The Largest Growing Markets In The Country, It Is Clarksville That Ranks As The Fifth-Fastest Growing Housing Market In The U.S. In Terms Of New Housing Permits.

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