Loud protests erupted as soon as the bill passed from a large crowd gathered in opposition to the bill. Several Republican ...

A new fiscal note on a controversial legislative education bill warns the effort to require Tennessee schools to collect citizenship or legal residency proof could jeopardize the state's $1.1 billion ...

Our state democracy is in crisis, and instead of trying to fix it, our state leaders are focused on exacerbating it.

Republican TN lawmakers are trying to challenge the 1982 Plyer v. Doe decision that prohibits states from restricting public education based on immigration status.

Tennessee schools could refuse to teach students without legal status, or charge their families tuition, under a bill ...

A bill that would allow public schools to refuse to enroll “a student who is unlawfully present in the United States” went to the Senate’s Education Committee Wednesday.

The murky future for illegal immigrant K-12 students in Tennessee got a little clearer Wednesday. An amendment to the bill by ...

A Tennessee bill that would require public schools to verify the citizenship status of students and give districts the option ...

"If someone is here illegally, they are not the responsibility of Tennesseans to pay for their education. They are here ...

Republican lawmakers in the Tennessee General Assembly are trying to move forward with a bill to allow schools to deny ...

A bill to make public school systems require students seeking to enroll to show documentation of U.S. citizenship or legal ...

A new bill that would allow school districts to decide whether to accept undocumented students narrowly passed the Senate Education Committee Wednesday evening. Now, advocates are sounding the alarm.