Title 49, Education

(1) As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “AP” means the advanced placement program offered by the college board;(2) “Conditional entry” means a student has met the requirements of § 49-6-8103, but the student is subject to completing existing academic r…

(a) Beginning with the 2012-2013 school year, a public school student may complete an early high school graduation program and be eligible for unconditional entry into a public two-year institution of higher education or conditional entry into a public four-year institution of hi…

(a) The state board of education or a local board of education shall not impose graduation requirements that would prohibit a student who is pursuing an early graduation program under § 49-6-8103 from completing high school in less than four (4) years. (b) This section shall not …

A student who meets the requirements of the early high school graduation program under this part shall be eligible for a Tennessee HOPE scholarship; provided, that the student meets all nonacademic requirements for the scholarship of chapter 4, part 9 of this title that are appli…

The state board of education and the Tennessee higher education commission are authorized to promulgate rules and regulations to effectuate the purposes of this part. All such rules and regulations shall be promulgated in accordance with the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act,…

An LEA may seek grant funding from the school safety center and use funds received pursuant to the Tennessee investment in student achievement formula (TISA) to assist with compliance with this part according to § 49-6-4302.

Each LEA shall ensure that the district-wide safety plans and building-level emergency response plans required by this part are developed in such a manner as to be consistent with the district's harassment and bullying policies developed pursuant to § 49-6-4503.

The legislative body of any county or municipality may appropriate funds for the purpose of providing resources for district-wide school safety plans, building-level school safety plans and district-wide school safety teams. Federal, state and local funds designated for such purp…

The commissioner of education is authorized to promulgate rules and regulations to effectuate the purposes of this part and § 49-6-4301(c)-(e). All such rules and regulations shall be promulgated in accordance with the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, c…

(a) Notwithstanding § 39-17-1309 or any other provision of title 39, chapter 17, part 13 to the contrary, and subject to subsection (b):(1) A person employed by an LEA as a faculty or staff member at a school within the LEA is permitted to possess and carry a concealed handgun on…

(a) As used in this section:(1) “Distressed rural county” means any county that qualifies as an “eligible county” under § 67-6-104, for the apportionment of sales and use tax revenue for commercial development districts, and has a population of not less than seventeen thousand (1…

(a) Each public school operated by an LEA, public charter school, private school, and church-related school shall ensure that all exterior doors leading into a school building are locked at all times and access to school buildings is limited to the school's primary entrance, unle…

(a) A public school building, including a public charter school building, constructed or remodeled after July 1, 2023, must, at a minimum:(1) Include a door-locking mechanism on each classroom door that allows the classroom door to be locked from the inside;(2) (A) If a public sc…

(a) The department of safety shall create de-escalation training for teachers, administrators, and other school personnel. (b) Beginning with the 2024-2025 school year and each school year thereafter, each LEA and public charter school shall ensure that each teacher, administrato…

(a) Notwithstanding another law to the contrary, if a local board of education has not entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with a law enforcement agency to assign a school resource officer at each school within the local board of education's control, then a law enfor…

(a) There is created a safe school design advisory board to recommend to the commissioner of commerce and insurance safe school design guidelines for LEAs and public charter schools to consider when constructing or remodeling kindergarten through grade twelve (K-12) public school…

A copy of a student's report card shall be furnished by the LEA to the parent or parents of the student.

(a) Any parent who does not have custody of a child, or in the case of parents having joint custody of a child, the parent not residing with the child, or in the case of a child in the custody of a legal guardian, both parents, may request in writing that a copy of the child's re…

(a) Each local board of education and public charter school governing body shall develop and implement a policy to provide on or with the report card of a student who is enrolled in any of the grades kindergarten through eight (K-8), the student's score on the universal reading s…

The purpose of this part is to protect and maintain the integrity of current prioritization and strategic planning processes established to best use limited state funds for public higher education toward greatest need and opportunity and to ensure prudent fiscal policy.

(a) All legislative proposals or requests for state funding toward public higher education capital projects, maintenance, new academic programs, public service, research activities, and engagement opportunities or operational support coming before the general assembly shall first…

For the purpose of fulfilling the requirements of § 49-7-1002(a) and (b), it is the intent of the legislature that this part shall be made a formal part of the policies and procedures of the board of regents, the board of trustees of the University of Tennessee, and the state uni…

(a) The board of trustees of the University of Tennessee and the state university and community college system are authorized and empowered to prescribe rules and regulations and requirements for the admission of students to colleges and universities and to programs of instructio…

(a) Except as provided in subsection (e), every dependent child in this state under twenty-three (23) years of age, whose parent was killed, died as a direct result of injuries received or has been officially reported as being either a prisoner of war or missing in action while s…

(a) State colleges and universities operating under the state board of regents and the University of Tennessee operating under the board of trustees of the University of Tennessee are authorized to use funds resulting from state appropriations or student fees for the purpose of p…

(a) (1) The board of trustees of the University of Tennessee, the board of regents, and each state university board shall adopt procedures whereby a Tennessee resident who is enrolled at an institution of higher education within their jurisdictions under educational assistance be…

(a) A municipal corporation in which a state college or university is located is authorized to prescribe and enforce traffic ordinances on the campus of the institution. (b) A municipal corporation shall not begin to prescribe and enforce traffic ordinances on the campus of the s…

(a) The board of trustees of the University of Tennessee and the state university and community college system, or either of them, are authorized to enter into all necessary or proper contracts with the federal government or any of its agencies, bureaus or departments, and with l…

(a) The board of regents, the board of trustees of the University of Tennessee, and state university boards are authorized and empowered to take such steps, to enter into such agreements, and to do whatever they deem necessary to the establishment of foundations for the state ins…

(a) The county legislative body of any county or the governing body of any city of this state may contract with and make donations or contributions to any public or tax-supported college, university or other public institution of higher education, or any nonprofit general welfare…

(a) For the purpose of providing an in-service training program to upgrade the professional personnel of the state colleges and universities operating under the state university and community college system, and to upgrade the professional personnel of the University of Tennessee…

(a) No person shall be granted a baccalaureate degree of any kind from any institution of higher learning supported or maintained by the state, or from any community college supported or maintained by the state, unless the person has earned credit in American history, consisting …

This part shall be known and may be cited as the “Student Information in Higher Education Act of 2005.”

(1) As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Institution of higher education” means any four-year college or university, whether public or private, located in this state;(2) “Parent” means a parent of a student, and includes a natural parent, a guardian, o…

Institutions of higher education shall inform parents and students of students' option to execute consent forms authorizing the institution of higher education to release certain otherwise confidential education records, as defined by federal law, to a designated parent, upon req…

Middle Tennessee State University shall implement a pilot program to effectuate this part, for a period not to exceed one (1) academic year, as defined by Middle Tennessee State University. At the conclusion of the pilot program at Middle Tennessee State University, the program s…

Each state institution of higher education shall notify parents of enrolled students of the parents' rights to view student records under the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA) (20 U.S.C. § 1232g) on the institution's website.

If an institution of higher education provides access to the campus or to student directory information to persons or groups that make students aware of occupational or educational options, the institution of higher education shall provide access on the same basis to official rec…

(a) This section is known and may be cited as the “Skills for Jobs Act.” (b) To the extent practicable within available resources and subject to the availability of data currently collected by and accessible to state agencies, the Tennessee higher education commission, in partner…

(a) (1) Disabled persons suffering from a permanent total disability that totally incapacitates the person from working at an occupation that brings the person an income, and persons who have retired from state service with thirty (30) or more years of service, regardless of age,…

(a) No person who is required to register for the federal draft under 50 U.S.C. § 3802 shall be eligible to enroll in any state postsecondary school until the person has registered for the draft. (b) The state board of regents, state university boards of trustees, and the board o…

(a) Any educational institution that provides instruction in the management, operation, procedures or practice of the dispensing of alcoholic beverages or bartending shall include in the instruction the teaching of the problems of alcohol abuse and the effect of alcohol consumpti…

(a) Full-time employees of the state university and community college system and the University of Tennessee shall be eligible for enrollment in one (1) course per term at any state supported college or university or state college of applied technology without paying tuition char…

The state university boards, the board of regents, and the board of trustees of the University of Tennessee shall require that courses in the detection and treatment of child sexual abuse be included in the curriculum of disciplines that include the training of physicians, pediat…

(a) The governing boards of public institutions of higher education are authorized to establish policies pursuant to which a suitable number of persons may be employed or commissioned, or both, as police officers, public safety officers, and security officers by the governing boa…

(a) (1) A child under twenty-four (24) years of age shall receive a twenty-five percent (25%) discount on tuition to any state institution of higher education if the child's parent:(A) Is employed as a full-time certified teacher in any public school in Tennessee;(B) Is employed …