The poll comes as lawmakers are poised to reduce barriers to open enrollment.

Richmond has been serving as interim superintendent since the board fired former superintendent, Dr. Marie Feagins last year.

Currently, superintendents in Tennessee are appointed by local school districts.

The House K-12 subcommittee voted the legislation down on a 2-5 party-line vote Tuesday morning.

The district has received a waiver covering five impacted days and will not need to adjust its school calendar.

That poll found Blackburn leading with support from more than 60 percent of respondents.

County commissioners approved the plan last year to align all nine school board seats on the same 2026 election cycle. 

Knox Prep faces challenges across multiple fronts, including enrollment.

The current lottery scholarship fund covers 13 programs, including the HOPE scholarship.

The district closed schools for the ninth consecutive day on Thursday.

In an exclusive interview, Blackburn expressed support for removing tuition requirements for out-of-district students and charter school funding.

The change will move most high school start and dismissal times forward by twenty minutes, and elementary start and dismissal times forward by 10 minutes.

Blackburn reported $5.3 million in contributions while Green reported $125,000.

Lee said demand warrants the investment in what’s expected to be a tighter budget year to expand the number of scholarships to 40,000.

57 percent of the 463 Republican voters who responded to the January poll said they’d vote for Blackburn in the August primary, compared to 8 percent for State Representative Monty Fritts, R-Kingston, and 7 percent for Congressman John Rose.

A spokesperson for Metro Nashville Public Schools says as of Thursday night, 17 schools were still without power, and another eight were experiencing partial outages due to Winter Storm Fern.

On Wednesday, Blackburn shared a video clip on social media of the President praising her at the Trump Accounts summit that day, and indicating he believes she’ll win the race to succeed Governor Bill Lee.

On a 6-2 vote, the Tennessee Public Charter School Commission granted Knowledge Academy at the Crossing’s appeal for a five-year renewal of its charter agreement.

More than 100 thousand homes remain without power in Nashville alone.

According to a news release, the Tennessee Department of Education has received more than 50,304 new and renewal applications for the program that allows families to use taxpayer dollars for private school expenses.