Since students across the state returned to classrooms nearly a month ago, Tennessee has drawn nationwide attention for skyrocketing COVID cases among children.
In turn, quarantines, too, have skyrocketed, impacting students, parents, and caretakers for weeks at a time.
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Indiana legislators are advancing a bill banning cellphones from schools as session comes to a close.
State Superintendent Glenn Maleyko praised the improvement in the high school graduation rate, but said there is more work to do.
One bill revives part of a proposal vetoed last year. The other is in response to the Evergreen High School shooting.
A new bill would allow some Tennessee private school teachers to get an emergency teaching waiver to teach at a public school but don’t have a bachelor’s degree.
One planning commissioner said he worried the school’s original industrial location could result in a child “ending up underneath a cement truck.”
The Department of Justice is investigating whether parents can take their kids out of classes with “gender ideology” lessons.
