Alexis Marshall
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A year after the shooting at a Nashville private school, more money for security has been the only response from state lawmakers.
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Gov. Bill Lee announced his support Tuesday for expanding a controversial school voucher program to all income levels and areas of Tennessee. The program, which the Lee administration is calling “Education Freedom Scholarships” would give participating families a little over $7,000 to attend private school or homeschool.
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Federal officials have told 16 states that they've been underfunding their Historically Black Colleges and Universities by some $12 billion. (Story aired on All Things Considered on Oct. 6, 2023.)
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Two weeks have passed since the shooting at the Covenant School that killed three students and three adults. For some, the traumatic impact is just beginning to surface.
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The outdoor recreation industry is overwhelmingly white. A new program at Tennessee State University aims to change that by getting more HBCU students involved in the outdoors.
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Gov. Bill Lee has officially begun his second term as the governor of Tennessee. The Williamson County-born Republican was sworn in for another four years at War Memorial Plaza in downtown Nashville.
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Teachers could see their budgets for things like pencils, notebooks and art supplies more than double under a new proposal at the state legislature. If enacted, the new policy would increase each teacher’s allotment from $200 to $500.
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A controversial new law gave Tennessee’s textbook commission more power over school library materials. But their first action item about libraries isn’t a hard-and-fast rule, and largely reinforces what schools are already doing.
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Tennessee State University is preparing for its largest incoming class, with more than 2,500 freshmen and transfer students arriving to campus for the first time this school year.
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The first thing Tennessee’s budget director wants you to know about Tennessee’s current budget surplus is that it’s unusual — like really unusual.