Fisk University is rich in students, scholarship and culture. New president Agenia Clark hopes to translate that into economic wealth for the school.
What you missed from week 2 of Tennessee’s task force on rejecting federal education funds
Catch up on everything from parent concerns about civil rights protections to lingering questions about federal requirements.
Tennessee’s task force on rejecting federal education funds has wrapped its first week. Here’s what we learned.
Tennessee would be the first state to reject this money, and few others have even considered it. In the first three days of meetings, lawmakers questioned state officials, researchers and school district leaders.
More than 12,000 Tennessee fourth graders are in required tutoring this year. They’ll need to improve their test scores to go to fifth grade.
Students will need to show “adequate growth” when they take their spring TCAP exams. The state board of education is still finalizing what that means and heard a proposal during its meeting last week.
As Tennessee assigns letter grades to schools, test scores will play a greater role
Tennessee is preparing to assign letter grades to schools across the state, a move that has been years in the making. But, at the last minute, the Department of Education is changing the formula determining how schools are scored.
Report: rejecting $1.1B annually in federal education funds would present major tradeoffs for Tennessee
Next week, a Republican-led group of legislators will consider rejecting federal K-12 education funds. A new report highlights the major tradeoffs and uncertainties associated with this idea.
‘Traumatizing’: Two Nashville teens share what happens when schools receive fake threats
Since the start of this semester, Metro Nashville Public Schools have received 15 threats of violence, according to police.
‘We’ve been cheated’: TSU students escalate their calls for the state to make up for $2.1B in underfunding
A prominent civil rights attorney has met with TSU leaders about how to address an estimated $2.1 billion in underfunding from the state. Ben Crump says students have legal pathways to obtain the money if negotiations with legislators don’t work out.
How Tennessee officials are responding to TSU’s call to make up for $2.1 billion in underfunding
Tennessee State University’s president says she wants the state pay the school back for the $2.1 billion it was shorted in recent decades. A federal analysis released last week shows that TSU was the most underfunded of any historically Black public land grant institution in the country.
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