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Department of Education Requests $30 Million for Summer Camps

Education Commissioner Lizzette Reynolds reported that roughly 90,000 students have been participating in the camps each summer, and 73 percent of those students attended at least 90 percent of the programming.

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Trump’s Plan to Eliminate U.S. Education Department Could Reshape Tennessee Schools, Lawmakers Say

Tennessee lawmakers convened the Joint Federal Education Deregulation Cooperation Task Force Tuesday morning assess the impact of President Donald Trump’s proposal to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education.

$Tennessee students still aren’t completely back to pre-pandemic levels on the Nation’s Report Card but they’re beating the national average$

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Tennessee students still aren’t completely back to pre-pandemic levels on the Nation’s Report Card but they’re beating the national average

Tennessee students outperformed the NAEP national average for proficiency in both subjects for both grades. Tennessee students have largely been below the national average in both subjects going back to 2003, with the exception of 2015 when fourth-graders exceeded the national average in math and eighth-graders exceeded it in reading.