Richard Locker

• Audit: Pathways to 4-year schools few for community college students Updated 05/23/2012 at 12:08 a.m.

  NASHVILLE -- The state's colleges and universities have not taken all the steps mandated by the Tennessee legislature to make it easier for students to attend lower-cost community colleges and then transfer the credits to the universities, a new performance ...

• Study of Memphis schools 'dissolution' says state's response empowered wealthy suburbs, 'hobbled' new merged district Updated 05/20/2012 at 12:08 a.m.

  NASHVILLE -- A journal article by a University of California law professor concludes that the 2011 state law allowing the creation of suburban school districts after the city and county schools merge next year "made things dramatically worse for Shelby ...

• No undercover investigation of horse abuse if Tennessee bill had passed Updated 05/18/2012 at 12:08 a.m.

  Two West Tennessee state legislators tried to pass a bill this year that would have made it a crime to conduct the kind of undercover investigation that produced video of horse abuse, resulting in federal and state charges against a ...

• Stretch of Tenn. 385 named for Gov. Dunn Published 05/16/2012 at midnight

  Tenn. 385, the eastern semi-circle roadway linking the Memphis suburbs, is about to have a third name on it: the Governor Winfield Dunn Parkway.

• Tennessee governor signs second bill on municipal school districts Published 05/15/2012 at 5:52 p.m.

  NASHVILLE — Gov. Bill Haslam signed into law today the lesser of two bills lawmakers approved regarding the establishment of new municipal school districts in the Memphis suburbs.

• Tennessee creates online jobs database Updated 05/14/2012 at 9:39 p.m.

  The state's new online jobs database went live Monday as a new tool for job seekers and employers.

• Improvements at Tennessee Capitol include security upgrade Published 05/14/2012 at midnight

  NASHVILLE -- A century and a half ago, the new Tennessee State Capitol was seized, fortified and transformed into Fortress Andrew Johnson by the Union Army during its Civil War occupation of Nashville.

• Memphis schools to get millions in federal funds to boost performance Updated 05/10/2012 at 11:25 p.m.

  Seven Memphis schools will split $14.8 million over three years, part of a state focus to end years of systemic poor public education.

• Haslam signs bill allowing local referendums on municipal schools in Shelby suburbs Published 05/09/2012 at 5:15 p.m.

  Gov. Bill Haslam has signed into law the bill paving the way for Shelby County suburban cities to hold referendums this year on creating new municipal school districts.

• Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam expects to sign municipal referendum bill Updated 05/08/2012 at 11:04 p.m.

  Gov. Bill Haslam said Tuesday he expects to sign into law the legislation allowing referendums to proceed this year in the Memphis suburbs on establishing new municipal school districts.

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