Tennessee has lost $3.1 Million every single day since refusing to expand medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, which amounts to over $7 Billion and counting. 300,000 Tennesseans remain without […]
State Senate Candidate Vote Bill Powers – running in Houston, Stewart, and Montgomery counties in a special election to replace Mark Green – gave a vague, wandering, uninformed, non-answer answer […]
Conservatives on the House Local Committee killed a measure that would allow Tennesseans who qualify to vote by mail to do so immediately after receiving a voter registration card. There […]
In 2018, the Tennessee Black Voter Project set out to register 55,000 voters – and ended up registering close to 90,000. Now Secretary of State Tre Hargett has a bill – […]
Last week HB 1380 – a bill from Ryan Williams (R-Cookeville) to allow teachers to arm themselves in Tennessee’s schools – passed out of the K-12 subcommittee, despite every single […]
With black kids being expelled & suspended at alarming rates, Rep. Harold Love’s bill for teachers to at least consider a child’s home environment before expelling/suspending them meets resistance from […]
(FIRST SEEN ON THE TN ED REPORT… Follow @TNEdReport for more updates) A Tennessee teacher writes about the education policies that make her sick. I’m sick. Sick of my students being over-tested and our schools being underfunded. Sick of teachers leaving […]
Speaker Glen Casada wants control of the staff responsible for providing an “independent” fiscal analysis of legislation and state finances. The Fiscal Review Committee, created in 1967 to oversee the […]
Rep. London Lamar’s bill to give pregnant Hope Scholarship high schoolers more time with their babies before having to go to college passed with bipartisan support, after Lamar and Rep. […]
In 2018, the Tennessee Black Voter Project set out to register 55,000 voters – and ended up registering close to 90,000. Now Secretary of State Tre Hargett has introduced a […]