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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Nov 8, 2023

Officials from the U.S. Department of Education declined to participate in a meeting of a state legislative working group tasked with determining whether Tennessee can reject federal education funding and replace it with state dollars, the Tennessean reports. According to the news source, federal education officials were scheduled to testify before the working group this morning, but did not attend. “The Federal Department of Education has informed us they are unable to attend our task force meeting. They can only offer ... ‘technical assistance’ to the committee, and they have stated that if members wish to submit questions, they will do their best to get them answered,” working group co-chair Sen. Jon Lundberg, R-Bristol, told panel members at a hearing today.