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Hawkins County Schools received $1.1 million Stronger Connections Grant from the Tennessee Department of Education.

May 16, 2015 The DOJ is going to tell administrators and teachers how to discipline and who they can discipline. They will judge success by racial quotas. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Tuesday that she is going to continue pushing public schools to abandon “zero tolerance” discipline policies. The administration believes it’s aimed at minority, at risk and LGBT students. The DOJ has plans for interfering in school discipline far beyond zero tolerance rules, however, which are, by...