Jon Styf

Appeals can be submitted between May 30 and June 30....

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed a bill that will raise the minimum wage for K-12 teachers and end the collection of dues for professional employee organizations as an automatic payroll withdrawal....

“Nothing is more important than Tennessee students and teachers returning home from school safely each day,” Lee said in a press release....

A bill to update Tennessee’s third-grade reading retention law has been signed by Gov. Bill Lee....

The Tennessee House approved a bill Wednesday to increase the base teacher salary to $50,000 in the state by the 2026-27 school year....

The pay increase portion of the bill would increase the minimum teacher pay incrementally....

A bill to add Hamilton County schools to Tennessee’s pilot education savings account program was approved by the Senate on Thursday and is scheduled to be discussed in House committee next week....

An audit of Dickson County schools found Director of Schools Danny Weeks received $13,700 in compensation as part of a federal grant that was not part of his contract....

The charges were part of $59,788.95 in fraudulent charges on school fuel cards. Of that, just more than $30,000 was reimbursed....

Sen. Todd Gardenhire, R-Chattanooga, has proposed Senate Bill 12 to expand the program to any school district with more than five schools that was identified as being in the bottom 10% of schools in performance in 2017 and then was also identified as a priority school in the 2015, 2018 and 2021 cycles....

The ESA program is aimed at allowing low-income students in low-performing schools in Davidson and Shelby counties to use vouchers to attend a school of their choice....