{"id":15537,"date":"2020-03-24T21:12:04","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T02:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=15537"},"modified":"2020-03-24T21:12:04","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T02:12:04","slug":"tennessee-department-of-education-penny-schwinns-statement-on-governors-recommendation-to-extend-school-closures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2020\/03\/24\/tennessee-department-of-education-penny-schwinns-statement-on-governors-recommendation-to-extend-school-closures\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Department of Education Penny Schwinn&#8217;s statement on Governor\u2019s Recommendation to Extend School Closures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-335392\" title=\"Tennessee Department of Education\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Tennessee-Department-of-Education.jpg\" alt=\"Tennessee Department of Education\" width=\"250\" height=\"111\">Nashville, TN <\/strong>&#8211; Today, Tuesday, March 24th, 2020, Tennessee Department of Education Commissioner Penny Schwinn released the following statement on Governor Bill Lee\u2019s announcement recommending school districts remain closed through April 24th:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_484704\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Tennessee-Education-Commissioner-Penny-Schwinn.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-484704\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-484704\" title=\"Tennessee Department of Education Commissioner Penny Schwinn\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Tennessee-Education-Commissioner-Penny-Schwinn-480x270.jpg\" alt=\"Tennessee Department of Education Commissioner Penny Schwinn\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-484704\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tennessee Department of Education Commissioner Penny Schwinn<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an unprecedented time for our country and&nbsp;state&nbsp;and we thank Governor Lee for his leadership in protecting the health and wellbeing&nbsp;of&nbsp;Tennessee&#8217;s students and teachers.&nbsp;We know school closures represent a significant disruption for families and students&nbsp;and the recommendation&nbsp;to extend them&nbsp;has not been considered lightly.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Department of Education team&nbsp;will&nbsp;continue to work closely with our districts as they serve students and families&nbsp;during this time.&nbsp;We are committed to doing whatever we can to support&nbsp;our district leaders as&nbsp;they make the necessary decisions to ensure students can continue to access&nbsp;critical&nbsp;meal and other services, as well as receive high-quality academic instruction while they are out of school.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven&nbsp;in&nbsp;the midst of&nbsp;these&nbsp;challenges,&nbsp;we&nbsp;have seen an incredible outpouring from districts, schools,&nbsp;and teachers going above and beyond to ensure students&nbsp;continue to have&nbsp;access to&nbsp;food&nbsp;and have the supports they need to continue learning.&nbsp;This is a huge testament to our resilience as a state and the dedication of our educators and leaders.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Tennessee Department of Education will continually update guidance to school districts posted on our website: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tn.gov\/education\/health-and-safety\/update-on-coronavirus.html\" >https:\/\/www.tn.gov\/education\/health-and-safety\/update-on-coronavirus.html<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nashville, TN &#8211; Today, Tuesday, March 24th, 2020, Tennessee Department of Education Commissioner Penny Schwinn released the following statement on Governor Bill Lee\u2019s announcement recommending school districts remain closed through April 24th:&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[12333,549,284,12441,12750,908,261,886,3350],"class_list":["post-15537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","tag-bill-lee","tag-nashville","tag-nashville-tn","tag-penny-schwinn","tag-schools-closed","tag-tdoe","tag-tennessee","tag-tennessee-department-of-education","tag-tennessee-governor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15538,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15537\/revisions\/15538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}