tennessee schools

The state Senate Republican Caucus Chair sends word she will be on everyone’s favorite daytime psychobabbling self-help show:

If they stay will there be trouble? If they don't will it be double?

Colleges and universities across the country are beginning their fall semester this and the coming weeks. Most middle Tennessee schools returned to classes a week or so ago, effectively ending what most of us call “summer.” The calendar will hold that summer has more than a month remaining, but the things that define our concept [...]

On a whim I decided to test my soon-to-be first grader to see if he understood basic algebra. I first asked him “If something minus 4 equals 5, what is something?” He took a couple of seconds and responded “9″. I asked a few more, including “Something minus 2 plus 3 equals 5″.

Stop the presses: One of our reporters had a pleasant experience with a state flack this week. Seriously. You're not going to believe what happened. Recently, Scene staff writer Elizabeth Ulrich needed a tutorial on No Child Left Behind and dialed Rachel Woods, the spokesperson for the Tennessee Department of Education.

Terry Frank is glad that Stacey Campfield got Democrats on the record on the issue of homosexuality in the classroom:

For the record, Democrats don’t seem to mind if the issues are raised to your kindergartner, despite the fact that we have graduates of Tennessee schools that can’t even read. They argue Campfield is just chasing ghosts.

Rep. Campfield’s legislation that would prohibit schools from providing instruction on issues of homosexuality failed on party lines yesterday.

What would cost Tennessee more revenue: half of all wine purchases being smuggled from out of the state, or people eschewing the local Borders in favor of Amazon.com?

The most common defense of the three tier system forwarded by the liquor distributor cabal is that it ensures the collection and distribution of sales and excise taxes, without which Tennessee roads may no longer be the State's prid