Tennesseans for Student Success Assistant Director of Government Relations Steven Bergman previews the upcoming legislative session that begins Tuesday at noon.

Speaker Sexton plans to propose an associate’s degree program next year for future kindergarten through sixth grade teachers. 

In this episode of On the Fly, he explains how the program will work and why he believes it can address Tennessee's teacher shortage without lowering teaching standards.

The Tennessee Public Charter School Commission overturned two local school board decisions on October 16th by approving new public charter schools for Madison and Rutherford Counties. 

The Jackson Museum School will take learning beyond the classroom by infusing subjects like science and math into weekly expeditions to local cultural centers.

Rocketship TN #4 will be Rocketship Public Schools' fourth charter school in Tennessee, operating with a similar personalized learning model that the charter operator's Nashville schools utilize.

On this episode of On the Fly we talk with leaders of both about why their schools are needed and what makes them different.

U.S. Congressman John Rose discusses why he decided to run for governor in 2026, along with his views on the Education Freedom Scholarship, career and technical education (CTE), public charter schools, and how he'd handle the additional authority President Donald Trump hopes to provide states for education.

The Tennessee Nature Academy is starting its third year this week in Nashville.

The public charter school offers students a nature-based education model that founder Jay Renfro says includes what he calls risky (not dangerous) play. The school recently held a groundbreaking ceremony for its new location that will open on 23 acres of donated land in Cane Ridge next year.

We spoke with Renfo following the ceremony along with a mother and student who who moved to Tennessee to attend the academy.

House Education Chair Mark White, R-Memphis, discusses new legislation that will create a ten-member advisory committee appointed by state leaders to study the state’s testing and teacher evaluation systems, the academic requirements for career and technical education (CTE) students, whether schools should have a minimum number of required instructional hours, and the licensure requirements for teachers. That committee would begin meeting later this year and issue a report by the end of December.

A bill that prevents Tennessee counties from switching from a primary to a caucus or convention for local partisan elections passed the State House last week and now heads to Governor Bill Lee's desk, despite opposition from Republican Party leaders.

We take a closer look at the debate, with comments from both supporters and opponents.

Students for Education is a student-led organization that started here in Tennessee in 2021 to help ensure Tennessee's youth have a voice in education policy.

Organization president and founder University School of Nashville Senior Brendan West joins us this week to talk about his organization and the bill it's advocating for that's on the path to passage in the Tennessee General Assembly.

This week two key committees will vote on Representative Mark White's legislation enabling state leaders to create a board of managers that would essentially have full authority over Memphis-Shelby County Schools.

Both sides made made their case last week in Nashville and at a Memphis-Shelby County School Board meeting.