Tennessee Conservative
District Attorney Craig Northcott Will Be Addressing Homeschooling And Truancy Issues At The Coffee County Republican Party’s August Meeting On The 31st At 7:00 Pm. Meanwhile, The Coffee County School District That Judge Ewell, Jr. Orders Students Back To Has Less Than 40% Proficiency In Overall ELA Scores Across All Grades And Less Than 30% When It Comes To Math.
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The Nine-Member Charter Commission, Appointed By Gov. Bill Lee, Will Have To Hold At Least One Public Hearing On Each School Before Deciding Whether To Overturn The Local School Boards Decisions Not To Approve American Classical Schools In Maury And Madison Counties.
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Legislation That Would Allow For Additional Exemptions To Tennessee’s Third-Grade Retention Law Is Now Headed To Governor Lee For Additional Action.
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• Tennessee DCS Given One More Year To Get Their Act Together After Audit Finds Children In State Custody Sexually Abused Or Harassed
• Tennessee Right To Life Revokes Endorsement Of Senator Richard Briggs
• Vanderbilt Survey Says TN Republican Voters Prefer DeSantis Over Trump And Support Weakening Of Abortion Law
• Tennessee GOP Chairman Reelected Despite Call For More Conservative Leadership
• Pork Report Says $1 Million Plus A Year Of Tax Dollars Spent To Fund Lobbying Efforts
• TDOE Report Shows State ACT Scores Remain Stagnant
• Tennessee Tech Professors First Amendment Case Against University Dismissed
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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Researchers At Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College Collected Data On Almost 3 Thousand Low-Income Children In Tennessee For More Than A Decade Only To Find That Attending The State’s Voluntary Pre-K Program Resulted In Negative Effects By Third Grade That Continued To Get Worse Over The Following Three Years.
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When Covid Shut Down America’s Classrooms, This Impacted SAT Scores, Exams, College Entrance Requirements, And Scholarships. It Negatively Skewed Standardized Tests. And Those Who Needed Extra Help Fell Further Behind. It Also Made Graduating A Challenge For Those Who Needed Required Classes. And This Forced Many States To Take Action Against Federally Unionized State Education.
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Even As Questions Continue To Be Raised About The Revamping Of School Funding In Tennessee, State Legislators Are Looking To Continue To Move Along With The Reform During This Session.
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Parents Weighed In On A Statistic That The Tennessee Conservative Shared Regarding TCAP Test Scores From The 2020-2021 School Year And Overwhelmingly, The Response Was Disappointment In Tennessee’s Education Options.
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The Number Of Children Being Home-Schooled Has Grown From An Estimated 13,000 In 1973 To 5 Million, According To A Report By The National Home Education Research Institute.
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