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 […]
Image Credit: sofatutor / UnSplash The Tennessee Conservative [By Paula Gomes] – The Tennessee Department of Education (TDOE) says that TCAP scores for each school will be available through their website when they release the 2023 scores sometime “in early 2024.” For now, this leaves the public with a limited amount of information pertaining to […]
A New Tennessee Bill Barely Scratches The Surface To Address The Concerns Of Students Who Are Worried About Their Personal Information Being Shared To Third Parties. Image: Middle Tennessee State University students listening and taking notes. Image Credit: Defense Visual Information Distribution Service / Picryl / Public Domain The Tennessee Conservative [By Rebecca Scott] – […]
First in a series of reports Image Credit: Skyler Ewing / Pexels By David Seal [Special to The Tennessee Conservative] – A tidal wave is under way. Students and teachers are leaving public education for a variety of reasons, a symptom of widespread discontent that is fueling the demand for public education money to follow […]
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