Alexis Marshall

A year after the shooting at a Nashville private school, more money for security has been the only response from state lawmakers.

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.

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.)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.