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The House of Representatives, Pubic Education K-12 Subcommittee is Scheduled to Hear School Start Date Bill. Please take time to email all committee members today! HB 1170, setting a school start date no earlier than September 1st, is scheduled to be heard in the House Education Committee on April 8th. Representatives Dunn and Mumpower, the bill sponsors, have indicated they will be amending the bill to require a school start date no earlier than the 4th Monday in August. This change is being made to allow school districts to continue ending the school year in late-May and to garner more legislative support. We need everyone to contact the members of the committee and tell them how important this bill is to you and your family. Remember, committee members are hearing from every school board member and school administrators asking they vote against this cost savings, family friendly bill. Below you will find a listing email addresses for all committee members. Please, send a friendly email to all members letting them know you are contacting them because they are members of the K-12 Subcommittee and you know a hearing has been scheduled for HB 1170 and that you support the passage of this bill. Please include your personal comments as well. Please feel free to forward this email to your friends and family and ask them to send emails as well. Email addresses to include in your plea to pass HB 1170: rep.leslie.winningham@capitol.tn.gov rep.ron.lollar@capitol.tn.gov rep.judy.barker@capitol.tn.gov rep.tommie.brown@capitol.tn.gov rep.bill.dunn@capitol.tn.gov rep.beth.harwell@capitol.tn.gov rep.joey.hensley@capitol.tn.gov rep.ulysses.jones@capitol.tn.gov rep.mark.maddox@capitol.tn.gov rep.larry.turner@capitol.tn.gov rep.terri.lynn.weaver@capitol.tn.gov saveTNsummers@gmail.com Click Here for More Information on HB 1170 Save Tennessee Summers is a non-profit, statewide coalition of parents, teachers and community members disappointed with the ever-earlier start to the school year. Our mission is to educate consumers of the education system, taxpayers and other interested people about the negative impact the early-August school start date and nontraditional school calendars have on our students, teachers and families. It is our hope that we can work with parents and school districts to help establish educationally and fiscally sound school calendars; a school calendar that allows more money to flow into teachers' salaries, classroom supplies and educational services ... without a heavier tax burden on Tennessee families.
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