(The Center Square) – The Tennessee Public Charter School Commission reversed a decision by Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools and approved an application for a school designed for at-risk youth. Known as “The Rock Academy,” the school would address chronically absent students. It would be open initially to 88 ninth graders. Nashville school officials asked the commission […]

(The Center Square) – A judge said Wednesday that the Fulton County Board of Commissioners will be subjected to a fine of $10,000 a day beginning Friday if it doesn’t comply with a court order to seat two Republican members on its election board. Senior Fulton County Judge David Emerson issued the ruling a week after […]

(The Center Square) – Three Southeastern states have launched a regional research project on automobile and battery production, hoping to further develop those industries in the region and create more jobs. Mississippi-Alabama-Georgia Network for Evolving Transportation, colloquially to be known as MAGNET, was launched Wednesday. “In 2023, our three states collectively built 1.9 million cars […]

EXCLUSIVE — President Donald Trump‘s Department of Housing and Urban Development is giving every public housing authority in the country 30 days to share citizenship status of tenants or risk losing their federal funding. By law, every PHA is required to share eligibility information, including citizenship status, with HUD. Section 214 of the Housing and Community Development Act specifically […]