KNOXVILLE, Tennessee
Education Commissioner Kevin Huffman said at the budget session in Knoxville last week that the agents want to fulfill that purpose.
"We want Tennessee to become the fastest improving countries in countries on education outcomes," said Huffman. "We think that we have plans to do that, and we think that we have the ability to do so."
Huffman said the Tennessee comprehensive assessment Program current value shows 40 percent of the position of third-class proficient in reading, while only 29 percent of seventh-grade achieved a score that is proficient in mathematics.
"We're also trying to reduce the gap between a group of students while we increase overall student achievement," he said. "We are trying to close the achievement gap that exists in this country among the children of white and minority children, between poor children and non-poor, students and students with disabilities."