Image Credit: Google Maps The Tennessee Conservative Staff – According to the Tennessee Court of Appeals, parents who are plaintiffs in a previously brought lawsuit regarding school vouchers can sue the state and the governor over the state’s Education Savings Account (ESA) program. The Court’s three-judge panel decided that the original plaintiffs in McEwen v. […]
Image Credit: Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury / YouTube The Center Square [By Jon Styf] – A Tennessee bill would cap property tax increases in the state at 2% plus inflation each year and 6% plus inflation over a three-year span. A higher percentage increase in property tax rates would require a referendum. Beacon Center […]
Image: Rep. Sam McKenzie, D-Knoxville, chair of the Tennessee Caucus of Black Legislators, and Rep. John Ray Clemmons, D-Nashville, chair of the House Democratic caucus, urge Gov. Bill Lee to replace the state education commissioner. Image Credit: John Partipilo By Sam Stockard [Tennessee Lookout -CC BY-NC-ND 4.0] – House Democrats are urging Education Commissioner Lizzette […]
Image Credit: @SenBoWatson / X The Center Square [By Jon Styf] – Tennessee’s Senate Finance Chair Bo Watson said budget adjustments will be made because the state is $280 million behind its budgeted estimates on tax collections through the first five months of the fiscal year. “TN General Fund revenues for December underperformed as compared […]
Image Credit: Office of the Tennessee Comptroller Press Release – An investigation by the Tennessee Comptroller’s Office has resulted in the indictment of Jessica West, the former city recorder for the Town of Normandy (population 105) in Bedford County. Investigators determined that West misappropriated town funds totaling $8,643 beginning in January 2017. West resigned from […]
Image Credit: U.S. NAVY via Picryl / Public Domain The Tennessee Conservative [By Rebecca Scott] – A bill dealing with Local Education Agencies and the process by which complaints can be filed by certain persons regarding prohibited concepts being taught or promoted in public and charter schools has been placed on the calendar for the […]
Image: Tennessee Education Commissioner Lizzette Gonzalez Reynolds Image Credit: TNDeptofEducation / YouTube The Tennessee Conservative [by Adelia Kirchner] – Tennessee’s new Education Commissioner Lizzette Reynolds is recommending that the state keep its contract with a New York-based literacy training group despite the contract’s nepotistic origins. Back in December of 2021, the state legislature’s Fiscal Review […]
Second in a series of reports Image Credit: Skyler Ewing / Pexels By David Seal [Special to The Tennessee Conservative] – Religious beliefs and gender-based ideology are contributing to the exodus. When it comes to religion, parents are generally divided between two groups, the group that wants Christian values and organized prayer back in classrooms, […]
Image Credit: The White House via Picryl / Public Domain The Center Square [By Joe Mueller] – The U.S. Constitution can’t be used by a state to remove a candidate from its presidential primary ballot, according to a brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court in a case involving Colorado and Republican candidate Donald Trump. […]
Image Credit: Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration / Facebook The Center Square [By Jon Styf] – Tennessee has now collected $279.9 million less than budgeted through the first five months of the fiscal year. December’s $1.9 billion in collections were $82.5 million less than budgeted In numbers released Friday afternoon. The December collections were […]
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