Tennessee Department of Education
Using unscored test sections to trial run new assessment questions is not unusual, but there is concern about putting students through lengthier tests.
Tennessee released school-level 2026 TCAP results. See how your school performed.
State and federal grants aren’t keeping up with the costs of the special education pre-K classrooms Tennessee districts are required to fund.
Blackburn and Green will face off in Tennessee’s governor race. Where do they stand on education policy?
A new teacher licensure policy change already exempts some student teachers from a previous edTPA test requirement.
Tennessee students showed progress in statewide testing this year, but is the progress sustainable?
The lawsuit challenges a new Tennessee law that establishes an oversight board to take control away from the locally elected school board.
The Memphis oversight board will take over district controls from the elected school board beginning July 1.
The nine-person board will now seize significant authority from the locally elected school board.
Though Tennessee law bans religious charter schools, state officials have left the Knox County Board of Education on its own to defend the policy. The legal battle signals major changes may be on the horizon for Tennessee’s charter landscape.
SCORE CEO David Mansouri will be the only takeover board member who isn’t a Shelby County resident.
The nine appointees will have control over key MSCS decisions, including the budget and school leadership, for four years.
The governor announced his five appointees for the Memphis schools oversight board hours after signing the measure into law.
Tennessee’s top three Republican leaders can now appoint a new oversight board with sweeping authority over the state’s largest school district.
Data about the new voucher recipients for the upcoming school year could fuel ongoing debates about who should benefit most from private school choice.
Preliminary TCAP data will be released the day before the MSCS school year ends. District leaders don’t have time to hold retakes only for struggling students who could be held back a year.
Students in Tennessee’s Education Savings Account program will no longer have to take state standardized tests, but the program is not expanding.
Tennessee Republicans finalized legislation today to install a politically appointed oversight board with sweeping authority over the state’s largest school district.
Top Tennessee Republicans are expected to finalize their takeover legislation this week. That would create a state-appointed oversight board with broad authority over district financial and operational decisions.
Voucher-friendly Tennessee Republicans are pushing a last-minute amendment that would drop all enrollment caps on the state’s original voucher program.