An education activist is speaking out on concerns she has that a key Trump nominee to the department of education has a ...

Penny Schwinn served as Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee's commissioner of education. President Trump nominated her to be U.S. deputy ...

State improving quickly compared to national averages as top-performing students separate from their lowest-performing peers ...

The UT System is "closely monitoring" the federal funding situation. President Trump also signed orders lifting restrictions ...

This story has been updated since original publication. Tennessee lawmakers backing a private-school voucher plan got a ...

The UT System is "closely monitoring" the federal funding situation. President Trump also signed orders lifting restrictions ...

Tennessee gives public agencies wide latitude to refuse to release data. That made it challenging for our reporters to figure ...

Trump announced his nomination of Schwinn, the former commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Education, in a recent Truth Social post, saying that she is "committed to delivering the American ...

In April 2020, I wrote a column about a partnership between the Tennessee Department of Education and PBS to offer digital programming aimed at young children. "As education commissioner ...

A special session that began on Monday pairs disaster aid with two priorities for both the president and Gov. Bill Lee of ...

Despite declines nationwide, Tennessee kids showed growth in math and reading in the latest National Assessment of ...

Penny has a strong record of delivering results for children and families,” President-elect Donald Trump posted late Friday ...