The budget proposal Governor Bill Lee unveiled during his State of the State address on February 8 included significant initiatives for Tennessee education. If approved by the General Assembly, the appropriations will respond to several data-driven K-12 and higher education priorities identified by SCORE in the 2021 State Of Education In Tennessee report and the Driving Forward digital report.
In a report published in The Learning Professional, the journal of Learning Forward, SCORE Chief K-12 Impact Officer Dr. Sharon Roberts writes about early literacy work in Tennessee.
Things are looking a bit different here at SCORE’s online home. We recently rebuilt our website to better tell the story of what SCORE cares about and works for every day. First and foremost, SCORE is focused on students and what is needed to help them achieve at their highest levels. So you will see many photos of Tennessee students and the educators who work with them featured on the site.
Public education is a vitally important issue to Tennessee voters, and a SCORE poll conducted in December found that voters cite education as the single most important issue in determining how they will cast a ballot in the August primaries for governor. Against that backdrop, SCORE co-hosted the 2018 Gubernatorial Forum on Education in January…
Four hundred education and health professionals from across Tennessee explored ways to advance student health and academic achievement at the Better Health, Better Learning summit in Nashville. The August 28 convening, sponsored by SCORE and NashvilleHealth and led by the founder of both organizations, Senator Bill Frist, MD, was the first of its kind in…