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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New data shows the state’s chronic absenteeism rate was still significantly higher last year compared to 2018-19.
Elevated rates of absenteeism have bedeviled school districts across the country in the wake of the pandemic.
The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights wrote to the district that it has found its Black Student Success Plan and a policy on gender identity are discriminatory.
Debates about what teachers can say — and what they should say — have intensified as GOP officials seek consequences for some who’ve commented about Kirk’s death on social media.
"Esta detención injusta ha frustrado y paralizado mi educación y mis esfuerzos momentáneamente", dijo Dylan. "Pero no me hará renunciar a esforzarme por alcanzar mis metas educativas".
How many students are enrolled in Tennessee’s new voucher program? The state won’t say.
