2010-2011 State of Education

Since the release of SCORE’s “Roadmap to Success” report in October 2009, Tennessee has transformed into a national leader for education reform. State and local leaders from both parties have repeatedly emphasized their commitment to ensuring that every Tennessean graduates from high school prepared for the global economy. The state has passed its most significant piece of education legislation in more than two decades. The state has received more than $710 million in philanthropic and competitive federal grants to support the implementation of its ambitious reforms. Although Tennessee’s student achievement levels remain in the bottom quarter nationally, recent reforms have begun to create the political, policy, and funding conditions to ensure that Tennessee’s schools become number one in the Southeast by 2015.