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Over The Past Few Budget Years, Tennessee Has Received TennCare Reserves That Have Covered The State’s End-Of-Year Budget Shortfalls. This Budget Year, Senate Finance Chair Bo Watson Vowed The Budget Would Be Adjusted For Lower-Than-Expected Tax And Use Fee Collections. The Budget Came In At $52.8 Billion, Lower Than The Past Two Years.
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Tennessee Has $144 Million For Education Freedom Scholarships That Won’t Be Spent And Will Deposit An Additional $100 Million In The Budget Set To Go Into Place For July 1.
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After Several Years Of Rapidly Increasing Spending And Tax Collections, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee Has Proposed A Budget That Would Spend Nearly $10 Billion Less Next Year.
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Nearly 200,000 Debt Collection Cases Were Filed In Shelby County And 112,000 In Davidson County Between January 2016 Through March 2023, According To Data From Sycamore Institute.
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Senate Members Of A Joint Committee On Federal Funding For K-12 Education In Tennessee Filed A Separate Report Stating They Could Not Agree With House Members Of The Joint Committee On The Recommendations.
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The Tennessee Senate’s Education Committee Chairman Opposes Turning Down At Least $1.3 Billion In Federal Education Funds But Says The State Could Seek Some Sort Of Waiver On Federal School Requirements.
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Three Tennessee K-12 School Superintendents Spoke To A Committee Looking At Rejecting Federal Funding To The State’s Schools With One School Director Suggesting The State Continue To Accept The Federal Funds And Use Extra Funds To Help Pay For Infrastructure Needs In The Schools.
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No State Has Ever Rejected Federal Funding For K-12 Education, So When Tennessee Looks At Potentially Doing That In A Committee Over The Next Few Weeks It Would Be Expensive And Uncharted Territory, According To A New Analysis From Nonprofit Think Tank Sycamore Institute.
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With Additional Covid-19 Federal K-12 School Funding Winding Down, Tennessee Continues Its Look At What School Funding Would Look Like Without Federal Dollars, Which Amounted To $10.4 Billion Coming To The State’s Schools Between 2019 And 2023.
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A Recently Released Report Is Giving New Insight Into The Mental Health Status Of Teens Across The State, Showing A Rise In The Number Of Deaths From Suicide Among Adolescents.
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