Tag: Education

Tennessee House Passes Bill Mandating Process For Reporting Divisive Concepts Complaints In Higher Education Institutions

Image Credit: capitol.tn.gov The Tennessee Conservative Staff – The House passed legislation on Thursday that would establish a reporting process for complaints regarding the teaching of divisive concepts in Tennessee’s colleges and universities. House Bill 2784 (HB2784) was presented by sponsor Representative John Ragan (R-Oak Ridge-District 33). The House voted to conform to and substitute […]

Republicans Call Tennessee Education Commissioner’s Credentials Into Question

Image Credit: tn.gov & State Representative Todd Warner / Facebook The Tennessee Conservative Staff – Some House Republicans have now joined in calling for the resignation of Tennessee’s Education Commissioner Lizzette Reynolds.  State Representative Todd Warner (R-Chapel Hill-District 92) is speaking out after Reynolds recently admitted to falsifying documents in an attempt to obtain a […]

A Benedictine Education ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Education follows the same law as the physical universe, which is sustained and carried on in dependence on certain centres of power and laws of operation. Education has its history in Christianity, and its doctors or masters in that history. A Benedictine Education, by John Henry Newman (160 pages, Cluny Media) As the physical universe […]

Tennessee Senate Education Committee Passes Private School Handgun Bill

Image Credit: capitol.tn.gov The Tennessee Conservative Staff – The Senate Education Committee passed a bill that will allow private schools serving Pre-K through 12th grade students to establish handgun carry policies for their property. Senate Bill 1708 (SB1708), sponsored by Senator Joey Hensley (R-Hohenwald-District 28), made a motion to pass the bill which aims to […]

Tennessee House Education Administration Passes Bill Allowing Law Enforcement Agencies To Assign Officers To Schools That Fail To Request One

Image Credit: capitol.tn.gov The Tennessee Conservative Staff – The Tennessee House Education Administration Committee moved forward with legislation that would allow law enforcement agencies to assign an officer to serve as a school resource officer at a school that fails to request that one be assigned. House Bill 1664 (HB1664), sponsored by Representative Todd Warner […]

The Education on Marxism We Desperately Need – HotAir

How did Marxism come to dominate American Academia and now US politics after a century of oppression, terror, and failure?  Those of us who lived through the Cold War, and especially those who served on its front lines, must be asking that very question. When the Berlin Wall fell, most of us assumed that Marxism […]

School Choice & Homeschooling: What’s Happened In Other States?

Image Credit: Canva submitted by Shaka Mitchell [Senior Fellow at The American Federation for Children / Tennessee Federation for Children] – Two streams of educational choice are converging: the growing number of homeschool students and the expansion of educational choice programs like Gov. Lee’s proposed Education Freedom Scholarship Accounts (EFSA). By now, it is old […]