Tennessee Conservative
The Tennessee Senate’s Education Committee Chairman Is Predicting The School Voucher Bill Won’t Pass This Year If An Agreement Isn’t Reached By The End Of The Week With The House And Senate Seemingly Unwilling To Budge On Conflicting Plans.
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The Tennessee Department Of Education Says That TCAP Scores For Each School Will Be Available Through Their Website When They Release The 2023 Scores Sometime “In Early 2024.” For Now, This Leaves The Public With A Limited Amount Of Information Pertaining To Each School’s TCAP Scores Through The New Letter Grades System.
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Letter Grades For Tennessee Schools Have At Long Last Been Released But The News Is Grim For Some Districts With Greater Than 25 Percent Of All Public K-12 Schools Receiving Ds Or Fs.
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An Assistant Professor Of Education At Austin Peay State University In Clarksville Is Teaching An Honors Course This Fall Titled “Is The Education System Broken?” The Goal Of This Course Is To Challenge College Students To Thoroughly Analyze Their Educational Experience And Critically Assess How The Education System Functions.
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Tennessee Lawmakers Voted To Give Approximately $40 Million More To A Testing Company Whose Ideology Directly Contradicts The State’s Legislative Efforts To Ban Critical Race Theory And Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Programs.
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Amid Uproar Over Third-Grade Reading Scores And The Prospect Of Thousands Of Failing Students, Tennessee Lawmakers Extended The Testing Vendor’s Contract And Bumped Up The Total Payout By Nearly $40 Million.
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ACT State Results And Participation Rates For The 2022 Graduating Class Were Released By The Tennessee Department Of Education On Tuesday. The Results Showed That Participation Grew But The State’s Average Act Score Remained Stagnant.
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It Is Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program (TCAP) Season In Tennessee Schools, A Season Characterized By Much Stress Amongst Schoolchildren And Educators Alike.
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Image Credit: Public Domain The Tennessee Conservative [By Jason Vaughn] – Educators continue to push through the student learning struggles
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Senators Sent State Sen. Brian Kelsey Reeling Monday Over Accusations That The University Of Tennessee Was Trying To Be “Woke” By No Longer Requiring Students To Take The ACT Or SAT Entrance Exams.
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