Marta Aldrich

Tennessee’s Republican-controlled legislature sent Gov. Bill Lee a bill to let some teachers and school employees carry a gun in schools.

As Tennessee’s legislature prepares to adjourn, it hasn’t agreed how to revise a 2021 reading and retention law that puts thousands of fourth-graders at risk of being held back.

Tennessee lawmakers approved legislation that gives parents a say in retention decisions and provides additional tutoring to struggling readers who advance to fifth grade.

A year after a mass school shooting in Nashville, Gov. Bill Lee said he will sign legislation to let some teachers and staff go armed in Tennessee public schools.

Tennessee lawmakers adjourned after a session marked by political infighting over private school vouchers and emotional debates about whether public school teachers should carry a gun at school.

The changes let a fourth grader’s parents, teacher, and principal decide collectively if the student should be held back due to a second straight year of low reading scores.

Tennessee’s textbook commission, which has new responsibilities over challenges to school library books, has hired a librarian as its first executive director ahead of an anticipated flood of appeals.

Tennessee fourth graders showed significant improvement on state tests for English language arts, while third grade scores were mostly steady after last year’s historic gains.

Divergent poll results have incentivized pivotal rural Republican legislative candidates to avoid discussing vouchers, which remain a hot-button education issue.

In one of the battleground states of the Civil Rights Movement, Gov. Bill Lee is drawing heat for his description of school choice as “the civil rights issue of our time.”