Lack of rural broadband access is how many zeroes worth of problem?
The commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development wants residents to share with the agency if high-speed Internet is available to them.
Read More →Watchdog’s Scariest People of 2015: No. 8
Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation Commissioner Bob Martineau lectures the world about taking steps to save the planet yet, at home, he won’t practice what he preaches.
Read More →Looking back at the year in school choice
2015 has been a year of great successes for school choice, and also a year of unfinished battles.
Here are some of the stories in three key states: Chalkbeat’s top 10 education stories out of Tennessee, 9 education stories that had Colorado talking, and how New York has dealt with segregation.
In addition, take a look at Chalkbeat Tennessee’s best quotes […]
Tennessee school choice advocates continue to press state lawmakers
Supporters of school choice are preparing to renew their fight in January 2016, pushing for more parental control of education. In the past, opponents — largely though not exclusively from Democrats — have blocked measures to create a school voucher program and to allow parents to determine how to deal with failing public schools. WHJL […]
Read More →Attorney general in coal-rich Tennessee hesitant to fight EPA’s Clean Power Plan
Tennessee’s attorney general won’t say whether he’ll join counterparts in 27 other states who are suing the Environmental Protection Agency over the Clean Power Plan, but time is running out for him to decide.
Read More →State environmental official backs higher power prices at climate confab
The commissioner of Tennessee’s Department of Environment and Conservation flew to the U.N. climate change conference in France this month to hobnob with environmentalists who say raising your electricity rates will save the planet.
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