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Celebrities like John Rich and Victoria Jackson were among those to testify that librarians were pushing porn to students, but where is the proof?

Ali Wallace Adair, a lifelong resident of Williamson County and Williamson County Schools alumnus, recently announced her candidacy for the Williamson County Schools Board of Education District 10 seat.

A Florida school board member scrolling Facebook became outraged when learning a book with a “sexually explicit” passage was in her school’s library, and called the police on the district’s superintendent and attorney.

A mayor in Mississippi held the local library hostage by sitting on its funding, demanding the institution remove “homosexual materials.”

In 1925, Lela V. Scopes, twenty-eight, was turned down for a job teaching mathematics at a high school in Paducah, Kentucky, her home town. She had taught in the Paducah schools before going to Lexington to finish college at the University of Kentucky. But that summer her younger brother, John T. Scopes, was set to be tried for the crime of teaching evolution in a high-school biology class in Dayton, Tennessee, in violation of state law, and Lela Scopes had refused to denounce either her kin or Charles Darwin.

Tennessee’s legislature is sending a school library bill to Gov. Bill Lee’s desk aimed at scrutinizing library materials for “age appropriateness.”

Along partisan lines, the GOP-controlled House of Representatives voted 73-21 Monday night to approve the Republican governor’s proposal following the Senate’s quick passage of the measure last month.

Williamson County Schools Superintendent Jason Golden outlined the effects of Gov. Bill Lee's recently proposed “student-based funding formula” on the district’s finances at a work session on Thursday.

According to projections presented by Golden, WCS would receive over a $22 million increase in overall funding in the fiscal year 2024, when the new formula intends to be implemented.

Gov. Bill Lee’s sweeping proposal to change how Tennessee funds public education faced an uphill legislative battle just weeks ago, but Republican leaders now sound optimistic about the prospect of approving his plan before adjourning next month.

“I think it will pass the Senate this year,” Lt. Gov. Randy McNally said Thursday, as his chamber prepared to start discussions in committee.

Former police officer Debbie Pace recently announced the kickoff to her campaign for the District 6 seat on the Williamson County Schools Board of Education.

Will Tennessee’s legislature and Governor Lee sell our children’s future to the highest bidder by expanding our already failing and corrupt privatized charter system?

Longtime Brentwood resident Kristi Bidinger has kicked off her campaign for the District 6 seat on the Williamson County Schools Board of Education.

Bidinger, an executive assistant for a Nashville-based health care company with more than 190,000 employees, also serves as an at-large member of the Brentwood Environmental Advisory Board. She said she’s running because she’s passionate about public-school education.

Conservative political action committee Williamson Families kicked off the local election season with an event attended by hundreds at The Factory in Franklin Tuesday.

The PAC presented their 19 County Commission and Board of Education candidate endorsements. Along with 15 Republicans, the group endorsed four independents. Three of their picks are incumbents.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Should Tennessee children be taught that civil rights laws prohibiting discrimination were a bad thing? On Wednesday, Gov. Bill Lee dodged those questions.