Tennessee Conservative
During The Month Of March, Girls On The Run Of Southeast Tennessee Is Challenging Residents To Participate In ‘Marathon In A Month’ To Raise Funds For The GOTR Of Southeast TN Scholarship Fund.
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Lee Stopped Short Of Voicing Support For Tennessee Bill To Prohibit Trans Students From Participating In Middle & High School Girls’ Athletics, But Said “Transgenders participating in women’s sports will destroy women’s sports. It will ruin the opportunity for girls to earn scholarships. It will put a glass ceiling back over women that hasn’t been there. I think it’s bad for women and for women’s sports.”
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Attorneys Representing Families And Schools That Stand To Benefit From School-Choice Program Are Asking The Tennessee Supreme Court To Allow The State To Accept & Process Applications For The Program As Court Proceedings Continue.
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Tennessee Supreme Court Will Hear Arguments Regarding the Constitutionality Of School-Choice Program That Would Provide State-Funded Scholarships To Low-Income Families For Educational Use, Including Attending Private Schools Of Their Choice.
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When COVID-19 shut down classrooms from coast to coast, few districts had contingency plans to plug the hole it put in our children’s learning skills and plans for the next year. This impacted many of their SAT scores, scholarships, college entrance requirements and exams. With no strategic plans during a shutdown, and generous union contracts, school teachers across the U.S. collected full time checks while sitting home. States require schools to include 180 days of classroom instruction and teaching programs. But this was ignored around America. Teachers got paid if they worked or not and many children played with friends instead of doing lessons in quarantine. The only students schooled as usual were by home schooling parents.
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State officials are asking the Tennessee Supreme Court to allow a school-choice program to move forward after being ruled unconstitutional by lower courts earlier this year.
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A pilot program that would provide state-funded scholarships for low-income students in Shelby and Davidson counties to attend private schools is unconstitutional, a panel of three appeals court judges ruled Tuesday in upholding a lower court’s ruling.
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