Melissa Brown

The AI overview is also frequently just plain wrong, just confidently off the mark on the most basic details of a Google search. I cannot believe how many people blindly trust it and other AI tools. We're absolutely cooked on media literacy and basic critical thinking right now

Last week, Sen. Brent Taylor called Memphis school board members “dumbasses.” He’s one of the Republican lawmakers pushing for a state-led board to run the local schools. chalkbeat.org/tennessee/2025…

There’s a whole lot in this sentence from the NYT.

Rep. Scott Cepicky pushed a bill this past year to force the Tennessee high school athletics governing body to change its bylaws to allow athletes one free transfer without eligibility restrictions. His Div I football prospect son just transferred. tennessean.com/story/sports/h…

NEW: For eight years, Kerr County sought help from Texas officials to pay for a $1 million early flood warning system. Twice, they were rejected. The third time the state agreed to chip in just 5% of the cost. With @keribla houstonchronicle.com/news/investiga…

Gov. Bill Lee is defending TN's new voucher program amid questions about its application process, which does not require families to report where their students went to school before. It's also not collecting income data for some families. chalkbeat.org/tennessee/2025…

85,000 acres of Tennessee’s national forests open for logging under Trump administration plan, @anitawadhwani reports tennesseelookout.com/2025/06/30/850…

Tennessee school districts were quietly informed last week that the U.S. Department of Education had reversed course and would provide promised pandemic relief funding it had revoked in March. Big news for Memphis schools and other districts: chalkbeat.org/tennessee/2025…

Please stop assuming that too many em dashes means AI written. Some of us are producing grammatically incoherent work the honest way!

Tennessee Lawmakers and Lenders Said Their Flex Loan Law Would Protect Borrowers. Instead It Trapped Them in Debt. propublica.org/article/flex-l… by @friedmanadam5 @TNLookout

Tennessee won’t know how many new vouchers go to existing private school students chalkbeat.org/tennessee/2025…

Nashville council members sue over immigration law criminalizing sanctuary city votes tennessean.com/story/news/loc… via @tennessean

The Lutheran (ELCA) southeastern synod is suing Tenn. for a law that will take effect July 1 barring churches, charities and others from "harboring" undocumented residents. The plaintiff, represented by TIRRC, is seeking an injunction. From @EvanMealins: tennessean.com/story/news/202…

Trump moved fast and broke things in education. But what he’s creating isn’t clear. chalkbeat.org/2025/06/20/tru…

Vanderbilt University Medical Center announces up to 650 layoffs due to fed funding cuts tennessean.com/story/news/hea…

Lawmakers and school board members had condemned the detention of Detroit teen Maykol Bogoya-Duarte and called for his release so he could finish high school. chalkbeat.org/detroit/2025/0…

Excellent read from @itsmelissabrown Tennessee schools could remove students with disabilities from classroom before assessment under proposed rule change chalkbeat.org/tennessee/2025… @ChalkbeatTN @ProEdTN @newschannelnine @WKRN @FOXNashville @WSMV @wvlt @FOX13Memphis