Tennessee Department of Education

The lawsuit asserts that the law is ‘unconstitutionally vague.’

Charter networks, both inside and outside the state, are tracking the legislation.

GOP leaders acknowledge that the Achievement School District district had failed in its turnaround mission.

University could use charter groups to expand its reach and replicate teaching and learning models.

Vouchers are a “bitter pill” that will destabilize K-12 education, a former Superintendent of the Year testified.

Bren Elliott was on the job less than six months

GOP lawmakers also want to conduct annual hearings into student testing requirements.

Lizzette Reynolds has a broad policy background, but no teaching experience.

Leader of Tennessee school board group and a superintendent explain why they strongly denounced the updated A-F grading system and a proposed expansion of private-school vouchers.

Three-quarters of schools earned a C or better under the new formula that stresses academic proficiency.

How will they be calculated? Will they matter? Chalkbeat gives a preview.

Fourteen schools had rates of 90% or higher. District officials credit tutoring, graduation coaches and other efforts.

Two out-of-state conservative groups will get the last word in Tennessee’s legislative hearings on rejecting federal education funding.

Prize-winning authors spoke to Whitehaven H.S. students but had to hold back on discussing themes of systemic racism.

Grades will be released in December. Revised criteria mark a big change of course under a new leader.

Bren Elliott, a former Nashville school administrator, will oversee improvement efforts that encompass nearly 300 schools

The lawsuit is the first legal challenge to the controversial 2021 law