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Tennessee lawmakers reflect on legislative session Tennessee lawmakers reflect on legislative session By Arianna Poindexter | May 7, 2021 at 4:49 PM CDT - Updated May 7 at 6:31 PM MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - From gun legislation to bills targeting LGBTQ youth, the Tennessee legislature had a year filled with controversial legislation. “We’re on an extreme path and it comes from the top,” said Senate Minority Leader, Jeff Yarbro, (D) Nashville. Yarbro was among other Democratic leaders who expressed disappointment with some legislation passed this session, including permitless carry, a b...

Tennessee lawmaker backs down from measure banning local challenges of state law constitutionality Yue Stella Yu, Nashville Tennessean A Tennessee lawmaker's attempt to bar local authorities from filing constitutional challenges over state law has failed for the year. The proposal, spearheaded by Sen. Brian Kelsey, R-Germantown, has been watered down and passed the Senate 17-10 on Wednesday following bipartisan concerns from his colleagues the bill could restrict local governments' authority to hold the state accountable. The House matched with the Senate version Wednesday ni...

The initiative died after drawing bipartisan concerns that the proposal itself could be unconstitutional.

Washington County commissioners and officials with the county’s school system say they are close to agreeing on a new $76.2 million education budget that includes a 4% pay increase for all of the system’s employees. On Wednesday, members of the County Commission’s Budget Committee asked Jerry Boyd, the director of county schools, and Brad Hale, the budget director of the school system, to make revisions to the education budget that was approved by the Washington County Board of Education last month. School officials noted that recent state Basic Education Program figures could ...

State should fully fund its share of cost of operating Tennessee's schools | Opinion Taxpayers shouldn't have to cover unfunded mandates and deficiencies in the Basic Education Program for K-12 public school students. Pastors for Tennessee Children and the Tennessee Public Education Coalition A Tennessee family of four, on average, pays over $1,000 a year in property taxes to offset the state’s ongoing underfunding of K-12 education. The state continues to rely on local taxpayers to finance numerous unfunded mandates critical to operating schools, which are glaringly absent from the Basic E...