Title 49, Education

(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, …

This part shall not constitute an exclusive method of issuing bonds by counties for school purposes. The bonds may be authorized and issued under any pertinent public or private act of this state now existing or hereafter enacted.

(a) (1) The counties, through their respective county legislative bodies, are authorized to issue and sell bonds for the purposes and in the manner provided in this part.(2) All bonds issued under the authority of this part shall be sold for no less than ninety-eight percent (98%…

(a) (1) The money arising from the sale of school bonds shall be turned over to the trustee of the county, and shall be kept separate and apart from all other funds, and shall be paid out only for the purposes and in the manner provided in this part, and the trustee shall be allo…

(a) The proceeds from the sale of school bonds issued under § 49-3-1002 constitute a special fund to be known as the special school fund, except funds for aiding this state in the construction of state education facilities or institutions as provided for in subsection (b), which …

(a) Upon their issuance, these school bonds are binding obligations and debts upon the county, and the county legislative body of the county shall levy annually a tax on all the taxable property of the county for the purpose of paying interest on the bonds as it becomes due and t…

(a) The various counties of the state, through their respective county legislative bodies, are authorized and empowered to issue and sell bonds for the purchase of school buses and appurtenances necessary to operate them. (b) The bonds may be known as school bonds and shall be is…

If any special school district has bonds outstanding payable from taxes levied by special act of the general assembly, and if at any time the amount on deposit in the special fund created solely for the purpose of paying principal of and interest on the bonds is equal to at least…

(a) The proceeds of bonds, notes and other debt obligations issued by counties under this part for school purposes shall be shared with special school district systems in the county on the same basis provided for sharing the proceeds of school bonds under this part. The trustee o…

This part is known and may be cited as the “Tennessee Investment in Student Achievement Act.”

(a) The state school fund consists of all funds appropriated or allocated from the state treasury for the operation and maintenance of the public schools or that may derive from any state taxes, the proceeds of which are devoted to public school purposes. (b) The state school fun…

(a) The Tennessee investment in student achievement formula (TISA) is a student-based funding formula established as the system for funding education for kindergarten through grade twelve (K-12) public schools. The TISA is established to support the following goals:(1) Empowering…

(1) As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Average daily membership” or “ADM” means the sum of the total number of days a student is enrolled divided by the number of days school is in session during this period;(2) “Base funding amount” means the unifor…

(a) Each student generates a funding allocation that includes the following:(1) The base funding amount;(2) Weighted allocations for which the individual student satisfies the criteria established in subsection (b); and(3) Direct allocations for which the individual student satis…

(a) Subject to available appropriations, the department shall allocate student-generated outcome incentive dollars to an LEA based on the achievement of member students in the LEA's public schools. (b) An LEA may receive student-generated outcome incentive dollars if the member s…

(a) Subject to available appropriations, stipends must be allocated pursuant to this section. Funds appropriated for the purposes of this section must first be allocated pursuant to subsection (b). If the funds appropriated for the purposes of this section exceed the amount requi…

(a) The commissioner and each local government shall distribute allocated education funding periodically throughout the school year according to a schedule established by the commissioners of education and finance and administration, subject to all applicable restrictions prescri…

(a) The state shall provide:(1) Seventy percent (70%) of the total funding allocation that students generate pursuant to § 49-3-105(a)(1) and (a)(2); and(2) One hundred percent (100%) of:(A) The total funding allocation that students generate pursuant to § 49-3-105(a)(3);(B) The …

(a) The department shall create or procure, and make available at no cost to participants, a professional development series on the TISA. The series must include, at a minimum, an in-depth explanation of the TISA and the TISA guide, instruction on how to budget to increase studen…

This part shall be known and may be cited as the “Educational Institutions Law of 1943.”

(1) As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Board” means both the board of trustees of the University of Tennessee and the state board of education, or either of them;(2) “Bonds” means any bonds of the board issued pursuant to this part;(3) “Federal agenc…

(a) The powers conferred by this part are in addition to the powers conferred by other laws; and the limitations imposed by this part shall not affect the powers conferred by any other law, general or special. Bonds may be issued under this part, notwithstanding any such other la…

(1) The board has the power and is authorized to:(1) Acquire by purchase, gift or the exercise of the right to eminent domain and hold real or personal property or rights or interests in real or personal property and water rights;(2) Make contracts and execute all instruments nec…

(a) (1) Bonds issued under this part shall be authorized by resolution of the board.(2) These bonds shall bear interest at such rate or rates, payable semiannually, may be issued in one (1) or more series, may bear such date or dates, may be in such denomination or denominations,…

Notwithstanding any other law, neither the board nor any institution that is authorized under this part to borrow money, issue bonds or notes or obtain loans shall do so without first securing the approval of the state school bond authority.

(1) The board, in connection with the issuance of bonds to acquire any project for an institution or in order to secure the payment of the bonds and interest on the bonds, shall have power by resolution to:(1) Fix and maintain:(A) Fees, rentals and other charges from students, fa…

(a) (1) All bonds issued pursuant to this part shall be obligations of the board, payable only in accordance with the terms of the bonds, and shall not be obligations general, special or otherwise of the state.(2) The bonds shall not be a debt of the state, and shall not be enfor…

(a) No moneys derived from the sale of bonds or otherwise borrowed under this part, or received as a grant, shall be required to be paid into the state treasury, but shall be deposited by the treasurer or other fiscal officer of the board in a separate bank account or accounts in…

(a) Each LEA must have the opportunity to provide feedback and recommendations regarding the TISA to the department and the comptroller of the treasury, on a template prescribed by the department, by November 1, 2024, and each November 1 thereafter. (b) By January 15, 2025, and e…

(1) Any holder or holders of bonds, including a trustee or trustees for holders of the bonds, shall have the right, in addition to all other rights:(1) By mandamus or other suit, action or proceeding in any court of competent jurisdiction to enforce the holder's or holders' right…

(a) Each local education agency shall produce an accountability report that:(1) Establishes goals for student achievement, including the goal of seventy percent (70%) of the LEA's students in third grade taking the English language arts (ELA) portion of the Tennessee comprehensiv…

(a) The state board shall establish a review committee for the TISA. The committee must be composed of the executive director of the state board, or the executive director's designee; the commissioner of education, or the commissioner's designee; the commissioner of finance and a…

(a) Beginning on July 1, 2023, there is created a progress review board. The progress review board consists of:(1) The commissioner of education;(2) The chair of the state board of education;(3) Two (2) members appointed by the speaker of the senate; and(4) Two (2) members appoin…

(a) The department may promulgate rules to effectuate this part. The rules must be promulgated in accordance with the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5. (b) Before the department begins the rulemaking process for a rule promulgated to effectuat…

(a) Each LEA and public charter school shall submit to the office of research and education accountability (OREA) in the office of the comptroller of the treasury and to the department of education by August 1 each year:(1) A planning and budgetary report for the upcoming school …

This part shall be known and may be cited as the “Tennessee State School Bond Authority Act.”

(1) As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Authority” means the Tennessee state school bond authority created by § 49-3-1204;(2) “Board” means the board of trustees of the University of Tennessee or the board of regents of the state university and commun…