2024 Legislative Preview: Education and Budget

EDUCATION

Keeping politics out of K-12 classrooms – In recent years, the General Assembly has made significant progress in passing legislation to prohibit teaching inappropriate political concepts such as transgender ideology and other sexual concepts in public school classrooms. Lawmakers have passed laws to increase transparency and oversight of instructional materials and literature used in public schools by ensuring parents know what reading material and books their child has access to in their classroom and school libraries. Expect lawmakers to continue to ensure Tennessee public schools...