tennessee department of education

Tennessee law effectively bars Maury County schools from holding class only four days a week to save money on fuel, a state spokeswoman said Tuesday.

Rachel Woods with the Tennessee Department of Education said state law requires students to attend class for 180 days.

MNPS, State Department of Education announce changes NASHVILLE, Tenn. (June 12, 2008) – MNPS and the Tennessee Department of Education are today announcing reorganization of some MNPS central office staff and functions.

State to order changes under No Child Left Behind law
By JAIME SARRIO • Staff Writer (Tennessean) • June 11, 2008

Major changes to the structure of the Metro schools central office will be forced by the state this week, an official said Tuesday.

Councilman Eric Crafton and his Save Our Students groups aren't the only ones who can crunch the education statistics.

You'll find this at Bill Hobbs blog regarding the illegal "Tennessee Plan" of selecting Supreme Court judges:

The Tennessee Department of Education has recently defended its decision not to recognize homeschool diplomas with the assertion that because they were prohibited from having anything to do with the selection of a curriculum, teachers, or textbooks in the church-related schools which “umbrella” homeschoolers they had no way to tell what a homeschool diploma represented.

It's been hard to keep up with MNPS and homeschooling fights at the legislature at the same time but in skimming the City Paper's article of last Friday this jumped out:

Rob Shearer, who has been following the progress of legislation to force the Tennessee Department of Educ

A coalition of Tennessee home-schoolers and church-related schools have beaten back an attempt by a group of Democrat lawmakers and Tennessee Department of Education bureaucrats to declare their diplom