Education in tennessee



The General Assembly Believes in Local Control and Accountability for Your Tax Dollars



State K-12 education is funded through the Basic Education Program. The BEP is a funding plan not a spending plan. In other words, the state uses the BEP formula in order to determine how much money each district will receive but districts are not required to spend the money based on the state formula.





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