Lawmakers grill education commissioner over ‘missteps’
Tennessee Education Commissioner Penny Schwinn (right) visits with Shantial Harris, 6, (left) as she works to putting numbers in sequential order at Libertas School of Memphis on Sept. 1. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian file)
Tennessee Education Commissioner Penny Schwinn avoided a no-confidence vote Tuesday, Sept. 21 but not verbal criticism from lawmakers during a House Education Committee hearing.
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Sam Stockard is a Nashville-based reporter with more than 30 years of journalism experience as a writer, editor and columnist covering the state Legislature and Tennessee politics for The Daily Memphian.
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