Leaders in the Tennessee General Assembly introduced a bill that would return the state to paper testing for a year.
House Bill 982 is sponsored by Rep.... tennessean.com/story/news/edu…
“I’m over the excuses. It happens too much. That person, you’re preventing them from going to work the next day. Well, this person doesn’t get to come home to his family,” he said. wreg.com/2019/03/22/ten…
Senator Dolores Gresham, chairwoman of Tennessee Senate Education Committee, and Mark White, chairman of House Education Committee, are founding members of the Tennessee General Assembly Early Education Caucus. johnsoncitypress.com/Column/2019/02…
The proposed bills have been introduced by Shelby County Democrats and one Republican in the House: Mark White. Both bills are in the early stages. fox13memphis.com/top-stories/ne…
The goal is to ensure the state continues to improve after increasing its national standing in math and reading on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, according to House Education Chair Mark White, R-Memphis. tennessean.com/story/news/edu…
Three Memphis-area legislators are key members of an education-minded group that on Wednesday announced the formation of a new bipartisan, bicameral caucus focusing... memphisflyer.com/JacksonBaker/a…
“There’s always things you can tweak or make better, but we don’t want to kill the things that are working,” White said. “We’ve made so many positive gains in the last eight years under Gov. Bill Haslam that I want to make sure we don’t go backward.” chalkbeat.org/posts/tn/2019/…
The state’s free-college program, called Tennessee Promise, has been offering two years of tuition-free community college or technical school to all high school graduates, regardless of income, since 2014. politico.com/agenda/story/2…