January 30, 2013 Tennessee Governor Endorses Vouchers Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam elaborated on his education initiatives in his State of the State speech Monday night to the Tennessee General Assembly. In…
January 28, 2013 States Not Required to Give Credit for Out-of-State Teaching Experience. The Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week in Connelly v. Steel Valley School District that the Privileges and Immunities Clause of the…
January 25, 2013 Another Week at the Capitol…. It seems to have been a fairly quite week at the capitol. Only a few notable education bills were filed: HB1076 – Requires the…
January 18, 2013 Legislative Update Let’s take a look at what happened during the first week of the session. Here are a few bills we knew were coming: SB15 –…
January 15, 2013 What the Affordable Care Act Means to You While working in Governor Beebe’s administration, I focused a lot of my time on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, what it really…
January 12, 2013 Legislative Session Preview While working for Governor Beebe, one of my biggest tasks was reading, analyzing, and tracking all education-related bills as they were filed during legislative…
January 11, 2013 Where are we now? Because of Lake View, a funding scheme emerged where the first 25 mills, or the URT, collected in each school district were remitted to…
January 9, 2013 The Lake View School District Case: An Overview, Part 3 At the end of the Court’s 2002 opinion, the Court did something somewhat unusual…..it stayed the issuance of its mandate until January 1, 2004….
January 8, 2013 The Lake View School District Case: An Overview, Part 2 Two significant things happened before the 2002 Lake View opinion was decided. First, the trial court certified the Lake View class, which included all…
January 7, 2013 The Lake View School District Case: An Overview, Part 1 There aren’t many educators in this state that haven’t at least heard of the Lake View School District case, but what is that case really all…