| TN | SB0484 | Intro
25% | As introduced, establishes a school safety technology fund as a special account within the general fund to provide local education agencies with the funding necessary to purchase a technology platform designed to assist schools in performing routine ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
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| TN | SB0794 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires a person who is required to disclose a relationship with an educational institution offering a student athlete a scholarship to also provide, within 48 hours instead of 72 hours of providing the initial disclosure, another wri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
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| TN | SB1524 | Intro
25% | As introduced, removes retention requirements for students who did not achieve a certain performance level rating on the English language arts portion of the student's most recent Tennessee comprehensive assessment program test; authorizes an LEA or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
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| TN | SB0920 | Intro
25% | As introduced, allows a third grade student who is not proficient in English language arts (ELA) based on the student's achieving a performance level rating of "approaching" on the ELA portion of the student's most recent Tennessee comprehensive asse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
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| TN | SB1302 | Intro
25% | As introduced, extends the deadline for appointing a member to the Tennessee council for career and technical education to fill a vacancy created by the death or resignation of a member, or by other cause, from 15 days to 30 days after the vacancy oc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
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| TN | SB0890 | Intro
25% | As introduced, removes the interest rate for scholarship loans evidenced by notes made payable to the Tennessee student assistance corporation for fellowship awards received by an aspiring teacher through the minority teaching fellows program. - Amen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
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| TN | SB0802 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes an LEA or public charter school to retain a student in the third grade if the student has not shown a basic understanding of the curriculum and an ability to perform the skills required in the subject of reading, as demonstr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
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| TN | SB0635 | Intro
25% | As introduced, allows registered voters of any county, instead of only Madison County, who reside within the geographic boundaries of an LEA to file a petition with the county election commission demanding the recall of a member of the LEA's local bo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
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| TN | SB0622 | Intro
25% | As introduced, removes the commissioner's authority to directly operate, or contract for the management of, a school or any grade configuration within a school in the achievement school district (ASD), and to assign a school or any grade configuratio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
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| TN | SB1216 | Intro
25% | As introduced, allows a local education agency (LEA) that experiences growth in its average daily membership (ADM), excluding the ADM of the LEA's virtual schools, exceeding 2 percent for each year of a two-consecutive-year period to be eligible for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
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| TN | SB1374 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department to allocate to each local education agency (LEA) sufficient funds for the LEA to employ one full-time public school nurse for every 750 students enrolled in the LEA, or one full-time public school nurse for the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
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| TN | SB1265 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes, instead of requires, an LEA or public charter school to retain a student in the third grade if the student has not shown a basic understanding of the curriculum and an ability to perform the skills required in the subject o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
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| TN | SB0901 | Intro
25% | As introduced, allows a third grade student who is not proficient in English language arts (ELA) based on the student's achieving a performance level rating of "approaching" on the ELA portion of the student's most recent Tennessee comprehensive asse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
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| TN | SJR0134 | Intro
25% | Dr. Lisa Piercey, East Tennessee State University Board of Trustees
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-08
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| TN | SB0903 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the Tennessee financial literacy commission to host a financial literacy webinar for students in each of the grades six through eight that is age and grade appropriate and designed to educate students on budgeting, saving, spe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-08
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| TN | SB1204 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes a local education agency to revise its family life curriculum to include instruction on contraceptives, consent, pregnancy, abortion, and certain relationship and communication skills; specifies that an individual or organiz...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-01
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| TN | SB0134 | Intro
25% | As introduced, specifies that the department must submit the early grades reading report to the education committee of the senate and the education committees of the house of representatives by January 15 of each year. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
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| TN | SB0945 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department to allocate any temporary assistance for needy families funds remaining unexpended at the end of a fiscal year to eligible after school programs in underserved communities to allow the programs to provide nutrit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-15
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| TN | SB1228 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires each school to make available to the department, instead of upon request by the department, the results of the school safety team's annual armed intruder drill, conducted in coordination with the local law enforcement agency. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| TN | SB1042 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases, from 90 to 95, the number of days before the date on which the Tennessee student assistance corporation anticipates that it will need to draw funds from the lottery for education accounts that the Tennessee student assistanc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| TN | SB1249 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes, from May 1 to June 1, the annual date before which the commission must publish the Tennessee postsecondary education fact book. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| TN | SB1040 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes the commission to require the governing board of a public institution of higher education to terminate an existing on-campus or off-campus program, instead of only making recommendations regarding the termination of certain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| TN | SB0748 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the written disclosure regarding transferability of credits made by a postsecondary educational institution to a prospective student to be in 20 point font instead of 16 point font. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| TN | SB1226 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the commission to post a notice on the commission's website within 30 days of designating a degree-granting institution of higher learning as a university. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| TN | SB0825 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department to annually release the Tennessee comprehensive assessment program and end-of-course assessment blueprints and scoring methodology to the education committees of the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| TN | SB1200 | Intro
25% | As introduced, adds the education administration committee of the house of representatives to the committees of the general assembly to which the dyslexia advisory council is required to submit an annual report on the number of students screened for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| TN | SB1123 | Intro
25% | As introduced, allows an LEA that uses the career academy or small learning community model to extend career and technical education (CTE) class sizes in grades six through eight if the extended CTE class size does not exceed the maximum class size f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| TN | SB1229 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes, from December 1 to December 15, the date by which the Tennessee higher education commission is required to submit the revised higher education funding formula and any projected tuition increases for the next academic year to t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| TN | SB1455 | Intro
25% | As introduced, expands who receives the Tennessee Learning Loss Remediation and Student Acceleration Act progress report that is developed by the department to include all of the general assembly, instead of only the speaker of the senate, the speake...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| TN | SB1018 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the comptroller of the treasury to submit a report on the comptroller's study of TISA to determine effectiveness of state expenditures on K-12 education and any legislative recommendations to the general assembly, instead of o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| TN | SB1227 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the commissioner of education to submit the annual report on the implementation of, and compliance with, the Schools Against Violence in Education Act, in addition to the governor, to the chair of the senate education committe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| TN | SB1008 | Intro
25% | As introduced, makes various changes to the Tennessee Learning Loss Remediation and Student Acceleration Act, including changes to require LEAs and participating public charter schools to conduct summer learning camps and after-school learning mini-c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| TN | SB0878 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the board to allow one credit of data science to satisfy one of the mathematics credits required for high school graduation. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| TN | SB1217 | Intro
25% | As introduced, allows a third grade student to be promoted, even if the student does not test proficient on the English language arts (ELA) portion of the student's most recent Tennessee comprehensive assessment program (TCAP) test, if the student te...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| TN | SB1014 | Intro
25% | As introduced, changes the name of the Tennessee public charter school commission to the Tennessee charter school commission; changes references of public charter schools to charter schools. - Amends TCA Title 1, Chapter 3; Section 2-3-107; Title 4, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| TN | SB0879 | Intro
25% | As introduced, removes provisions establishing a three-year pilot program concerning parent-teacher engagement in any grade from kindergarten through grade two that began with the 2018-2019 school year. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| TN | SB1026 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Transparency in Charter School Finance Act." - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7 and Title 49, Chapter 13.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| TN | SB0961 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the department of education to make available to LEAs on its website the guidelines developed by the state board of education, with the assistance of the department, for appropriate kindergarten through grade 12 instruction on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| TN | SB0843 | Intro
25% | As introduced, deletes antiquated language that required the office of research and education accountability in the office of the comptroller to submit a report by November 1, 2019, to the education committees of the senate and house of representativ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| TN | SB1259 | Intro
25% | As introduced, enacts the "Rep. Barbara Ward Cooper Act"; requires LEAs to include in the course of instruction for students in kindergarten through grade 12 curricula designed to educate students in conflict resolution. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| TN | SB1267 | Intro
25% | As introduced, extends eligibility for a Tennessee middle college scholarship to students enrolled in any eligible postsecondary institution located in this state, instead of only eligible public two-year postsecondary institutions, that is partnerin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| TN | SB1519 | Intro
25% | As introduced, removes the Tennessee public charter school commission as an appellate charter school authorizer; transfers the commission's authority to authorize charter schools on appeal and to serve as the local education agency for each charter s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| TN | SB1209 | Intro
25% | As introduced, specifies the early grades reading report should be submitted to the education administration committee of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| TN | SB1120 | Intro
25% | As introduced, allows counties and municipalities to reestablish the office of elected school superintendent. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| TN | SB0830 | Intro
25% | As introduced, requires the commissioner to notify each LEA when the office of research and education accountability publishes a report germane to kindergarten through grade 12 education. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| TN | SB1518 | Intro
25% | As introduced, authorizes the director of schools to submit, in an electronic format, to the commissioner of education the director's annual report of the salary rating of each person employed as teacher, principal-teacher, and other school personnel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| TN | SB0882 | Intro
25% | As introduced, increases the amount, from $200 to $600, each LEA is required to pay each teacher in kindergarten through grade 12 for the purchase of instructional supplies for the 2023-2024 school year. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| TN | SB0805 | Intro
25% | As introduced, clarifies that the office of early learning is required, by February 1, to provide an annual report to the governor and the general assembly on the status of pre-kindergarten programs, which must include, at a minimum, the number, loca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| TN | SB1234 | Intro
25% | As introduced, adds the education instruction committee of the house of representatives to the list of committees of the general assembly to which the department is required to submit a report regarding the number of endorsement exemptions and tempor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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| TN | SB1429 | Intro
25% | As introduced, expands, from only local boards of education in distressed rural counties to all local boards of education, the governing bodies for LEAs that are authorized to adopt a policy allowing their director of schools to authorize and select ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
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