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Sign up for Chalkbeat Tennessee’s free newsletter to keep up with statewide education policy and Memphis-Shelby County Schools. With icy roads and frigid temperatures lingering in much of Tennessee, many districts in the state have blown through their allotted inclement weather days with months left in the school year. The extreme winter weather forced districts from Memphis to Nashville to close their doors this week. In Memphis, stubborn ice has complicated travel on local roads. There are widespread power outages in Nashville, with more than a dozen school buildings still without power as of Friday. Many students in the Middle Tennessee region are also still without power and internet access, school officials say. But exactly how many snow days do Tennessee schools get? And what happens if they run out before roads are accessible and power is restored? The answer is a little complicated. Tennessee law requires schools to have 6.5-hour school days for 180 days per school year. Schools usually have seven-hour school days, which allows districts to stockpile up to 13 extra days. Districts use those stockpile days differently and build them into their calendars at the beginning of the school year, often allocating some days for professional development and reserving some for inclement weather. Memphis-Shelby County Schools, for example, had eight days set aside this year. With the January winter storm week, it is now down to three. Rutherford County Schools, which have also been closed all week, allocated nine weather days and is now down to four, though the district has an upcoming staff development day it can use if needed. “This is my 22nd year with the school district, and during that time, we have never used all of our inclement weather days,” RCS Chief Communications Officer James Evans said. “One year we used all of them, but we did not go over.” In the more rural Cheatham County northwest of Nashville, a Cheatham County School District spokesperson said the district has one stockpile day remaining and it had not yet made a call on reopening schools as of Friday, Jan. 30. Schools can use four days of hybrid instruction per year and up to five days of remote instruction per semester due to severe weather if they run out of stockpile days, a Tennessee Department of Education spokesperson said. But those options aren’t feasible during the widespread weather impacts many in Tennessee are facing this month. “Many students throughout Cheatham County as of Friday, January 30 are still without electricity and internet,” said Tim Adkins, communications director for the Cheatham County School District. Metro Nashville schools had six weather days this school year, and the district has now used all of them. It’s not yet clear if schools will reopen on Feb. 2, as tens of thousands of households in the area are still without power. Districts are able to tack on make-up school days at the end of the school year if they run over on their stockpile days. But school districts could now be eligible for a special waiver granted by the Tennessee Department of Education in the event of a natural disaster. This would relieve districts of the 180-day instructional requirement under Tennessee law. Previous TDOE guidance states waivers would only be granted as a “last resort in extreme circumstances,” though Gov. Bill Lee has declared a state of emergency due to the severe winter weather impacts. MNPS spokesperson Sean Braisted said the district is consulting with TDOE about its waiver options “as remote learning options are not viable at this time due to extensive power outages throughout the city.” But as of Friday, MNPS had not yet requested a waiver. The Tennessee Department of Education has not yet granted any waivers in the state due to the winter weather, a spokesperson said. Melissa Brown is the bureau chief for Chalkbeat Tennessee. Contact Melissa at mbrown@chalkbeat.org.

Laurel city council members sat in silence as they listened to nearly two hours of commentary from frustrated community members about the selection of a 114-acre parcel just off Old Highway 10 and Golf Course Road for the location of a state-run psychiatric facility. While the council members’ lips were tightly sealed, residents of Laurel and the surrounding area gave them an earful. The post Laurel locals speak out against site location for state psychiatric facility  appeared first on Montana Free Press.

The nation’s capital will host an autorace through its streets this summer, President Donald Trump said Friday. The IndyCar race, which Trump compared to the Indianapolis 500, will take place Aug. 23, with preliminary events such as practice sessions occurring for two days before, Trump said during an Oval Office announcement.  It will be free […]

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The fight over control of the Federal Reserve has revolved around interest rates and inflation, but President Donald Trump’s choice to be the bank’s next chair could sway how the agency assesses climate risks, too. In a speech last year to a group of financial leaders that was broadly critical of the Fed, Kevin Warsh […]

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s new Federal Reserve chair pick likely faces headwinds in the U.S. Senate, as a key lawmaker opposes the administration’s ongoing criminal probe of current Fed leader Jerome Powell. Trump announced early Friday he’s tapped Kevin Warsh to lead the central bank after Powell’s term ends in May. Warsh sat on […]

GOP reversals in this year’s elections, especially in some urban and immigrant communities, are setting off alarm bells for Republicans using redistricting to try to keep control of Congress in next year’s midterms.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Justice released more than 3 million pages of documents Friday related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The release, which in the 3 million pages includes more than 2,000 videos and 180,000 images, comes more than 40 days after the agency was legally required to release the full set of […]

ევროკავშირი გეგმავს რუსეთის წინააღმდეგ შემოღებულ სანქციათა მეოცე პაკეტს დაუმატოს დამატებითი შეზღუდვები რუსეთის ბანკებისა და ნავთობკომპანიების მიმართ - იუწყება სააგენტო Bloomberg-ი, წყაროებზე დაყრდნობით. სააგენტოს წყაროების თქმით, ევროკავშირი სანქციების შემოღებას ასევე აპირებს მესამე ქვეყნების კრიპტოვალუტის სერვისებისა და ფინანსური ორგანიზაციების მიმართ - რომლებიც, როგორც იუწყებიან, რუსეთს სანქციებისთვის გვერდის ავლაში ეხმარებიან. სანქციების სიაში ასევე მოხვდება ე.წ. "ჩრდილოვანი ფლოტის"...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s new Federal Reserve chair pick likely faces headwinds in the U.S. Senate, as a key lawmaker opposes the administration’s ongoing criminal probe of current Fed leader Jerome Powell. Trump announced early Friday he’s tapped Kevin Warsh to lead the central bank after Powell’s term ends in May. Warsh sat on […]

Crime continued to decline in 2025, with homicides down 21% from 2024 and 44% from a peak in 2021, according to a new analysis of crime trends in 40 large U.S. cities released by the nonpartisan think tank Council on Criminal Justice. If federal nationwide data, which is set to be released later this year, […]

It was frigid on Thursday when the Shoofly  —  a 64-foot 1941 tugboat forged with American steel – set out along the Newtown Creek to carve up the ice sheets blocking barges from getting through.   The ice parted soundlessly before the 78-ton vessel as it made its way past the Kosciuszko Bridge, which connects industrial […] The post WATCH: This 85-Year-Old Tugboat Is Why You’re Not Freezing Right Now appeared first on THE CITY - NYC News.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Justice released more than 3 million pages of documents Friday related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The release, which in the 3 million pages includes more than 2,000 videos and 180,000 images, comes more than 40 days after the agency was legally required to release the full set of […]

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s new Federal Reserve chair pick likely faces headwinds in the U.S. Senate, as a key lawmaker opposes the administration’s ongoing criminal probe of current Fed leader Jerome Powell. Trump announced early Friday he’s tapped Kevin Warsh to lead the central bank after Powell’s term ends in May. Warsh sat on […]

A task force created to solve a financial cliff facing transit agencies released its report last year, offering few solutions to the problem.

Direct cash assistance from the state is helping homeless Oregon youth find housing, according to the results of a pilot program that concluded last year. In February 2023, the Youth Experiencing Homelessness Program at the Oregon Department of Human Services began providing 120 youth in Multnomah, Clackamas and Deschutes counties ages 18-24 experiencing homelessness with […]

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Justice released more than 3 million pages of documents Friday related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The release, which in the 3 million pages includes more than 2,000 videos and 180,000 images, comes more than 40 days after the agency was legally required to release the full set of […]

Relatora especial da ONU, perseguida por denunciar os crimes de Israel, radiografa a Palestina hoje, quando o mundo parece esquecer o genocídio. Analisa a hipocrisia da “Junta de Paz” de Trump. E garante: "impunidade não durará para sempre" The post Que nunca nos esqueçamos de Gaza appeared first on Outras Palavras.

The Trump administration’s efforts to exclude the state from investigations into the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti go against decades of practice.

No Panamá, presidente se encontrou com Rodrigo Paz, da Bolívia, e trocou afagos com José Antonio Kast, do Chile Lula trabalha para isolar Milei, ocupar liderança regional e preservar eleições no Brasil apareceu primeiro no Brasil de Fato.