Tennessee fourth graders will have a new way to move onto fifth grade if they performed poorly on the language arts section of last year’s state test.
Gov. Bill Lee highlights how he wants to foster better discourse
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox is the chairman of the National Governors Association. Last July, he launched a series called Disagree Better, an initiative to try to figure out how American politics can become less polarized. Cox brought the series to Nashville this week — with Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee joining him on a panel.
Gov. Bill Lee signs law requiring schools to out transgender students
Tennessee teachers may now be required to out transgender students to their parents, under a measure signed into law by Gov. Bill Lee. The legislation requires schools to alert parents if their child has requested to go by a name, or set of pronouns, that differs from their school forms.
Tennessee is putting $80M into rural health workforce programming. Here’s how.
Not everything on Gov. Bill Lee’s wish list made it into the state budget this year, but lawmakers did sign off on his plan to invest in access to health care for rural Tennesseans.
NashVillager Podcast: Tennessee’s fracturing GOP leadership
How did Governor Lee’s signature measures fail in a legislature controlled by his own party? Plus your local newscast for April 25, 2024.
Who killed Tennessee’s universal school voucher bill?
Lee and pro-voucher lobbying groups campaigned hard to get a universal voucher bill through the legislature, but it didn’t work.
Classes resume at original Covenant School campus for the first time in over a year
Covenant School students, faculty and staff are holding classes at the school’s original campus for the first time since the mass shooting that left six dead, including three children, on March 27, 2023.
Tennessee school voucher bill is ‘not dead yet,’ but the odds dwindle as the end of session looms
House Majority Leader William Lamberth said the bill is “not dead yet.” On Tuesday legislators said negotiations were ongoing.
Southern governors tell autoworkers that voting for a union will put their jobs in jeopardy
On the eve of a vote on union representation at Volkswagen’s Tennessee factory, Gov. Bill Lee and five other southern governors are telling workers that voting for a union will put jobs in jeopardy.
TN House and Senate search for compromise on two major bills as session nears its end
Leaders of the Tennessee House and Senate have said they are meeting privately to discuss compromises on two bills.
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