Lawmakers wary of cost for sending students to private schools. Photo: Gov. Bill Lee with Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders in Nashville on Nov. 28, 2023, for Lee’s announcement he will push to provide private school vouchers statewide. Photo Credit: John Partipilo By Sam Stockard [Tennessee Lookout -CC BY-NC-ND 4.0] – Facing a $610 million […]
Third in a Series of Reports Image Credit: Skyler Ewing / Pexels By David Seal [Special to The Tennessee Conservative] – During the fall semester 2023, a concerned teacher reported a heinous situation and requested help. A disruptive student spit on him during class and was sent to the school administration for discipline. The student […]
Ohio has been dealing with a chronic problem in its public schools known as chronic absenteeism or truancy. That’s defined as a situation where students are missing more than ten percent of school days over a prolonged period. They were already dealing with this issue prior to the pandemic, but since then it’s gotten considerably […]
Image Credit: Defense Visual Information Distribution Service via Picryl / Public Domain The Center Square [By Jon Styf] – Students who take part in the Tennessee Promise program earn credits and awards at a higher rate and are retained more often than students who are not part of the program, which began in 2014 to […]
Image Credit: capitol.tn.gov The Tennessee Conservative Staff – Tennessee’s House K-12 Subcommittee voted Tuesday to move forward with a bill that would require schools to institute policies regarding the use of artificial intelligence (AI). House Bill 1630 (HB1630), sponsored by State Representative Scott Cepicky (R-Culleoka-District 64), mandates that all state universities and K-12 public and […]
Image Credit: The Satanic Temple / Facebook & Homes.com The Tennessee Conservative [By Adelia Kirchner] – This month, community members gathered outside of Chimneyrock Elementary School in Cordova, Tennessee, to protest during a meeting of the Satanic Temple’s After School Satan Club (ASSC). The Satanic Temple currently maintains active after school clubs in California, Ohio, […]
Image Credit: RDNE Stock project / Pexels The Center Square [By Jon Styf] – Tennessee students in a pilot educational savings account program in three counties are receiving $9,800 – the average statewide funding per public school student – this year. That’s higher than the $7,075 first-year number in a proposed statewide ESA program and […]
ANALYSIS: DEI commitment includes a recent $17 million faculty initiative, ‘identity centers,’ and more. Image Credit: Vanderbilt University / Facebook By Maggie Kelly [Assistant Editor, The College Fix] – Vanderbilt University employs more than one full-time administrator for every two students, a College Fix analysis found. During the 2021-22 academic year, the most recent for […]
Image Credit: Wilson County Sheriff’s Office & Google Earth The Tennessee Conservative [By Rebecca Scott] – A former Lebanon High School teacher has finally been sentenced for crimes committed in 2015 and 2016. Michael R. Hargis was charged in 2021 and pleaded guilty in July of 2023 on charges of statutory rape by an authority […]
Image Credit: Google Earth The Tennessee Conservative Staff – Metro Nashville Schools will have to pay almost $1 million for a lawsuit involving a sexual assault that took place at Hunters Lane High School in 2017. Damages were awarded on one of the claims after the trial, while the other claims were settled. Those amounts […]
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