Title 49, Education

(a) (1) All special school districts that are not taxing districts are abolished.(2) Taxing districts that are not encumbered by debts or bonds may at any time, on ten (10) days' notice, hold an election, and upon the affirmative vote of a majority of the legal voters of such dis…

(a) The school board, school commissioners, school trustees or other duly constituted administrative officials of any special school district are authorized and empowered to transfer the administration of the schools in the special school district to the county board of education…

(a) The county trustees of the several counties of this state are authorized to pay over to the county board of education of their respective counties any balance of funds in the hands of the trustees that have been derived from special school district taxes, when and if the law …

A special school district may, by legislative act, establish eligibility and procedures for nonresident property owners.

This part shall be known and may be cited as the “School Support Organization Financial Accountability Act.”

The general assembly recognizes the importance of school support organizations in providing financial support to help carry out academic, arts, athletic, and social programs to further educational opportunities for the children of this state. The general assembly also recognizes …

(1) As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Donation” means any gift or contribution of money, materials, property or securities from any nongovernmental source received by a school official or employee for the benefit of a school district, school, school…

(a) A group or organization may not use a school district's or school's name, mascot or logos, property or facilities for the raising of money, materials, property or securities until a policy has been adopted by the local board of education concerning cooperative agreements, sch…

(a) The director of schools or the director's designee shall annually post or publish a list of organizations that have complied with § 49-2-604(b). This posting or publication may be made by written or electronic means. The school board shall determine the appropriate method of …

(a) Any individual who collects or receives any student activity or other internal school funds shall turn over to the properly designated school official or employee all student activity or other internal school funds. The funds shall be considered student activity or other inte…

(a) Donations to a board of education shall be received and disbursed in accordance with § 49-6-2006. (b) In addition to any requirements established by § 49-6-2006(a), the following specific conditions shall apply:(1) Any donation made by a school support organization to a board…

(1) A nongovernmental group or organization, including all school support organizations, may not:(1) Use the school's or school district's sales tax exemption to purchase items;(2) Represent or imply that its activities, contracts, purchases, or financial commitments are made on …

(a) A school support organization or any group or organization that collects and raises money, materials, property or securities while representing itself to be a school support organization shall be subject to audit by the office of the comptroller of the treasury. (b) (1) A sch…

The office of the comptroller of the treasury is authorized to adopt a model financial policy for school support organizations.

Notwithstanding § 48-51-303(a)(1) to the contrary, a school support organization that is required to register as a nonprofit organization, foundation or chartered member of a nonprofit organization or foundation by a policy adopted in accordance with this part shall be exempt fro…

(a) A public school or its administrators or supporters are authorized to form, or caused to be formed, a charitable school foundation for the sole purpose of supporting the school by raising and administering funds for the school and its programs. A school foundation shall be br…

This part shall be known and may be cited as the “High Performing School Districts Flexibility Act.”

(a) As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Department” means the department of education; and(2) “High performing school district” means any LEA in the state that satisfies a majority of the following criteria, if applicable to that LEA, according to the…

Any LEA meeting a majority of the applicable criteria in § 49-2-102 may, by action of its local board of education, declare itself to be a high performing school district. Such designation shall be in effect beginning July 1 following the local board action. The designation shall…

(a) A high performing school district may, during any year in which the designation is in effect, without first seeking or obtaining approval from any other state or local governmental agency or unit:(1) Appropriate additional funds as needed from the fund balance of self-sustain…

This part is known and may be cited as the “Tennessee Accommodations for All Children Act.”

(1) As used in this part:(1) “Changing facility” means an area in which a person may be in a state of undress in the presence of others, including a locker room, changing room, or shower room;(2) “Reasonable accommodation” includes, but is not limited to, access to a single-occup…

(a) A public school shall, to the extent practicable, provide a reasonable accommodation to a student, teacher, or employee of the public school who:(1) Desires greater privacy when using a multi-occupancy restroom or changing facility designated for the student's, teacher's, or …

(a) If a written request for a reasonable accommodation is denied by the principal, then the student, teacher, or employee, or the student's parent or legal guardian, as applicable, may appeal the decision to the director of schools, or to the director's designee, by submitting a…

(a) A student, teacher, or employee of the public school, or the student's parent or legal guardian if the student is under eighteen (18) years of age, has a private right of action against the LEA or public school, if:(1) (A) The student, teacher, or employee encounters a member…

(a) A middle school student or high school student who transfers from one (1) member school to another is immediately eligible to participate in interscholastic athletics at the member school to which the student transfers if:(1) The transfer is the student's first transfer in gr…

(a) Public schools, including public charter schools, shall not use public funds to join, become members of, or maintain membership in an association that regulates interscholastic athletics unless the association's governing board voluntarily complies with the open meetings laws…

(a) If a student is placed in foster care, as defined in § 37-1-102(b)(17), and the student seeks to participate in interscholastic athletics, then the public school or public charter school in which the student is enrolled shall notify an association that regulates interscholast…

Any voluntary association that establishes and enforces bylaws or rules for interscholastic sports competition for public secondary schools in this state shall be subject to an annual audit by the comptroller of the treasury. At the discretion of the comptroller of the treasury, …