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Teacher Quality

Competitive salaries, health insurance and retirement are key factors in recruiting and retaining quality teachers for Tennessee classrooms. 
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On the hill is your stop for anything legislative or regulatory for education. (See links in the gray bar above.) Here you'll find TEA's Legislative Action Center (LAC) where you can track legislation AND contact your legislators directly. Just go to the LAC, click Issues & Legislation. Select any bill of interest to get in-depth information, then type your zip code. Automatically you'll get an e-mail screen for your legislator(s). Follow important action on Twitter as well.

 

You'll also find TEA's Legislative Report is the definitive weekly education review for Tennessee's General Assembly. TEA's G-R-E-A-Team – grassroots lobbyists, teachers and education support professionals like you – receive special alerts, sometimes daily, when action goes into high gear around issues with real impact on you and your children. Members can subscribe, or unsubscribe, at any time. A home e-mail address is required. 

 

TEA posts regular information concerning the State Board of Education whose decisions can carry the weight of law. They have tremendous impact on every facet of Tennessee's classrooms.

 

Bookmark this spot, and check back regularly to protect your interests as educators and those of your students.