department of education

Amy Griffith reports that at a community meeting led by Councilman and Reverend Jerry Maynard an appeal was made for Mayor Karl Dean to join the fight against school rezoning. Only one problem, he appears, more or less, to be for it:

This is only for one year, extending the protection will cost more....Unspecified at this time on the cost or need for extending beyond the year one time frame (As reported by Tom Lawrence on WAKM's Noon Newscast)

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.

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:

Recently, the Tennessee State Board of Education ruled diplomas issued to home-schooled students from religious based schools were invalid as proof of the successful completion of High School should it be presented for employment purposes for a job for which state law requires a diploma. You read that right.

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.