What are the districts required to do for retention and recruitment of teachers? How will this impact teacher hiring and retention?
The TISA Budget Proposal allocates $125M annually to increase [...]
Why are low-income students considered only 25% more needy than high-income students?
During the Senate Ed Subcommittee Hearing (3/14/22), the Commissioner [...]
How are “characteristics of dyslexia” defined? Do students have to have an official diagnosis to qualify? Will school districts be required to specifically begin testing for Dyslexia?
In TISA, “Characteristics of Dyslexia” references an existing law, [...]
If the legislation passes as amended currently, does that mean that the specific weights for the Unique Learning Needs portion (including ELs) will be set by rules from the Department of Education? How would those weights be set? Do we know what the 10 ULNs are yet?
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How do we know if the weights are appropriate?
Similar to questions under the ‘Base’ section, it is [...]
Are undocumented immigrants eligible for TennCare? How do we evaluate their needs?
Undocumented immigrants are not currently eligible for TennCare. Districts [...]
What’s the mechanism for direct certification (economically disadvantaged)?
We currently use direct certification to identify students from [...]
If we find that base funding does not support adequate numbers of support staff, how do we argue that the base number ought to be increased?
TDOE states the proposed $6,860 base would make Tennessee [...]
Do we know if the proposed base actually covers adequate numbers of teachers, counselors, social workers, RTI instructors and so on?
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Any idea how they arrived at the precise $6860 base amount? How do we know that the base is appropriate? What’s the rationale for setting it there, rather than say, $5000, and then contributing more funding for weights? How does the proposed base amount (as a ratio of total per-pupil funding) compare to other states?
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