There are a lot of good things happening in Tennessee, and they're being recognized in significant ways across the country."
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NASHVILLE — Gov. Bill Haslam on Monday night promised to move “full speed ahead” in serving Tennessee taxpayers, touted the state’s successes and laid out a defense of high state education standards in his annual State of the State address to the General Assembly.
“I stand here tonight to tell you that the state of our state is enviable in many ways,” he told the joint convention of the House and Senate. “There are a lot of good things happening in Tennessee, and they’re being recognized in significant ways across the country.”
The governor defended the state’s high education standards for students even as those standards are expected to come under attack from many fellow Republicans in the GOP-dominated General Assembly.