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A NewsChannel 5 analysis shows more than 1,000 teacher openings during the first week of July. During the 2021-2022 school year, the state had 1,024 unfilled vacancies.

MUT says it still has majority

Executive Director of Professional Educators of Tennessee J.C. Bowman shares his thoughts on Larry Arnns claims about teachers.

Upstate legislators say they support Tennessee’s educators and were quick to denounce disparaging comments against teachers made by an advisor to Gov. Bill Lee.

The governor sought to defuse anger that he sat silently while an adviser criticized teachers as ‘trained in the dumbest parts of the dumbest colleges’

Without calling out anyone by name, Carson-Newman President Charles Fowler weighed in Wednesday on the growing controversy following disparaging comments about teachers from Larry Arnn, the college president hand-picked by

Gov. Bill Lee on Wednesday refused to rebut recently revealed remarks made by a charter school president who claimed that teachers "are trained in the dumbest parts of the dumbest colleges" during a reception the Republican attended.

Despite statewide criticism, Gov. Bill Lee to reject comments debasing teachers by Larry Arnn, president of Michigan-based Hillsdale College.

Gov. Lee Lee praised Tennessee's educators and argued that the comments from Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn were criticizing “activism from the left.”

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on Wednesday refused to rebut recently revealed remarks made by a charter school president during a reception the governor attended. Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn claimed that public school teachers “are trained in the dumbest parts of the dumbest colleges.”