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For her chief of staff, Schwinn has picked Rebecca Shah, who worked at the Texas Education Agency where Schwinn served as deputy commissioner of academics before Gov. Bill Lee hired her as Tennessee education chief.
Tennessee’s school districts are nearly halfway through online testing, and for the first time in three years, no major issues have been reported.
Tennessee’s teacher training programs improved or maintained their scores on a report card released Friday, even as the number of would-be educators they graduated dipped for a third straight year.
The state board of education is being told it should approve a recommendation to shut down a small Memphis charter middle school after 10 years of operation.
With just months to go before a company is supposed to take over Tennessee’s troubled assessment program, the state has yet to release its request for proposals.
Penny Schwinn is scheduled to take the reins Feb. 4 of Tennessee’s education department, where she’ll oversee 600 full-time employees and work on new Gov. Bill Lee’s agenda for public education.