DCS Child Abuse, Campaign Lies, Taxpayer Abuse, Stagnant Scores, Two More Years Of Winter & More! – The TennCon Big 7!

• 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

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Senator Bo Watson Anticipates New Data Will Show In-Person Learning Led To Quicker Learning Loss Recovery

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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State Pre-K Detrimental To Kids Says Vanderbilt Study

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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States Rebel Against Failing Unionized Education

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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Legislators Prepare To Move Forward With School Funding Reform

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 Unhappy With Current School Choice Options In Tennessee

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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Homeschooled Children Increased To 5 Million In 2020

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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Joint Statement To Gov Lee & TN General Assembly On Masks In Schools

For Well Over A Year Now, We Have Seen The Negative Impact Of Government Mandates On Businesses And Families In Response To This Virus. But There Can Be No Doubt That Our Students Here In Tennessee Have Been Some Of The Hardest Hit And They Have The Scars To Prove It. The Latest TCAP Results Show That Less Than 30% Of Our Students Across The State Are Reading And Understanding Math Simply At Their Own Grade Level. And For The Most Part, We Know That We Can Blame The Lack Of In-person Learning Over The Prior School Year. Yet, We Are Now Heading In That Same Direction For The 2021-2022 School Year.

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More School Choice Options Equals Higher State-Level Test Scores

As School Choice Bills Continue To Make Their Way Through State Legislatures, A Report On Student Achievement Published By The University Of Arkansas’s Department Of Education Reform Argues That The More Educational Options Are Afforded Parents, The Better Statewide Test Results Are.

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