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The appointment leaves a vacancy in the 9th Congressional District seat on the State Board of Education, which has an increasingly large role to play in setting the standards for success at Tennessee schools.
News and updates on the new maps for Tennessee’s congressional districts — which split Memphis into three separate districts — and the lawsuits challenging the redistricting.
News and updates on the Memphis Safe Task Force since formally beginning operations on Sept. 29, 2025, in Memphis.
Tennessee’s League of Women Voters and NAACP file suit against state election officials over the new congressional map, which passed last week in a whirlwind three-day special session.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee also signed several more bills related to redistricting.Related content:
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has called a special session of the Tennessee Legislature to consider redrawing the lines of the state’s nine Congressional districts in a bid to turn the state’s largest and only blue district red in this year’s midterm elections.
The court said plaintiffs lacked standing to bring the challenge of the guard’s deployment.
Data indicates that relatively few lower-income families applied or were eligible to participate in the program.
The House Democratic Caucus chair is calling for the late G.A. Hardaway’s seat in the Tennessee House of Representatives to be filled before the special session on Tuesday.
A lot can happen in four months, especially when 132 Tennessee lawmakers get together. Here are some of the bills that may have slipped between the big headlines.
Four months after announcing Republican lawmakers would send a “strong message” with immigration-related bills, The Daily Memphian looks at what passed and what failed.
A new bill headed to Gov. Lee would keeps applicants for roles like superintendent and fire chief anonymous. Supporters call it protection. Critics say it’s concerning for government transparency.
Gov. Bill Lee and other Republicans are pointing to interest in the program, which will give more than $7,500 per child for private school tuition and certain educational costs.
President Donald Trump came to Memphis to declare victory over crime. Two Friday night shootings were a reminder that work still remains. Trump visits Memphis to talk Task Force US to hold off striking Iranian power plants, Trump says in MemphisRelated content:
Jeers and shouts erupted from the House floor as a Republican resolution honoring Gov. Bill Lee’s deployment of the National Guard to Memphis moved forward with no discussion allowed.
Members of the Tennessee House of Representatives are set to vote Thursday, March 19, on a congratulatory resolution for Gov. Bill Lee following his deployment of the state’s National Guard to Memphis last year.
Tennessee would spend around $303 million next school year to fund private school tuition costs for 40,000 students if Gov. Bill Lee’s proposal is successful.
Also, Steve Cohen says next step in federal government funding centers on DHS and ICE; and Bill Lee talks about childhood visits to Memphis, as well as the tragedy that shaped his entry into politics; and a Shelby County mayoral contender opened his campaign headquarters.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took the stage with state leaders as part of his “Take Back Your Health Tour.”
A new state budget was just introduced, with funds for Memphis, raises for teachers and a reminder that Tennessee has a funding shortfall for infrastructure needs. Gov. Bill Lee wants $155 million to fund 20,000 new vouchersRelated content:
If Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee achieves his goal, Tennessee would spend more than $303 million in public dollars on vouchers next fiscal year to help send 40,000 students to private schools across the state.
U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen is asking Gov. Bill Lee to amend the Tennessee’s request to FEMA to include the estimate.
Last year, 5,500 Shelby County students got about $45 million in public funding to use at private schools by participating in the state’s two major school voucher initiatives. Even more vouchers could be on the way.
Gov. Bill Lee declines to sign up for federal food assistance program, shifts focus to state-funded solutions.
In the days before a Nashville judge ruled on the legality of Gov. Bill Lee’s deployment of the Tennessee National Guard, hundreds more guardsmen surged into Memphis, according to public records.