Gov. Bill Lee says his administration will conduct a review of Tennessee's nearly 30-year-old funding formula for public school districts and explore changing the current system to one where state money "follows" a student to the school he or she attends.
Tennessee Republican legislative leaders have penciled in Oct. 27 for the start of a special session at which GOP members are expected to push back on COVID-19 restrictions and mandates by government and, possibly, businesses.
A new audit by the Tennessee comptroller of the treasury finds that while Chattanooga State Community College has made strides over the past two years in addressing deficiencies identified in its 2019 examination, four of 13 unspecified problems remain.
Tennessee child care providers are seeing a 10% jump in payment rates for children whose families are enrolled and meet requirements in the state's assistance programs for low-income families.
Gov. Bill Lee on Tuesday unveiled Tennessee's new standard license plate, scheduled to hit the roads in January.
The same day Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee and Ford Motor Co. executives announced last week's agreement to put a $5.6 billion electric vehicle plant in rural West Tennessee, conservative opponents of school mask mandates and federal vaccination requirements rallied in Lt. Gov. Randy McNally's Oak Ridge hometown to pressure Lee and other Republicans into backing their efforts.
One special session of the legislature deserves another, some GOP lawmakers are saying, as they look for an opening to ban mask requirements and vaccine mandates amid a pandemic that has killed 700,000 Americans.
Fifty-eight federally qualified health centers in Tennessee and Georgia are getting some $39 million in federal grants under the American Rescue Plan Act, U.S. Health and Human Services officials say.
A federal judge has ruled that Tennessee and Kentucky officials are free to disregard provisions in a congressional coronavirus-related spending measure that bar states from using the money to allow for tax cuts.
$5.6 billion plant will make electric-powered pickups, employ over 5,700 workers
