Metro Schools and Beacon Center Spar Over COVID Funding
Metro Nashville Public Schools fired off a scathing response this week to a new Beacon Center report that’s critical of.
Report: Tennessee’s inflation-adjusted K-12 school spending increases lower than most states
Tennessee’s per-pupil spending on K-12 public school students, amongst the lowest in the country, increased an inflation-adjusted 18% from 2002.
- by By Jon Styf, The Center Square
- August 25, 2022
Tennessee delays issuing schools A-F grades — again
For a fifth straight year, Tennessee has delayed its plan to start giving A-F grades to its 1,800-plus public schools..
- by Marta W. Aldrich, Chalkbeat Tennessee
- August 24, 2022
Report questions Tennessee public school’s spending of $3.5B in COVID-19 relief funds
A new report from Beacon Center of Tennessee shows that school districts throughout Tennessee received a total of nearly $3.5 billion sent.
- by Jon Styf, The Center Square
- August 24, 2022
Reading all star back to compete in Tristar Reads Scholarship Program
There’s not a Hall of Fame for reading competitions in Tennessee but if there were, Pegram’s Sarah Collier would be.
- by Sky Arnold
- August 1, 2022
Rutherford County approves Tennessee’s first suburban charter school
Tennessee currently has no charter schools operating outside the big four cities of Nashville, Memphis, Knoxville, and Chattanooga. Rutherford County’s.
- by Sky Arnold
- July 18, 2022
State board sides with public charter school in dispute with Metro Nashville Public Schools
Hundreds of Nashville public school children won’t have to endure the uncertainty of switching middle schools next month after all..
- by Sky Arnold
- June 28, 2022