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Monument, Testing Controversies Rock Tennessee Lawmakers In Session's Final Days

Controversies over testing and Confederate monuments have dominated the 2018 legislative session's final days.
Chas Sisk
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WPLN
Controversies over testing and Confederate monuments have dominated the 2018 legislative session's final days.

The Tri-Star State — A Tennessee Politics Podcast — Week of April 22, 2018

The big debates appeared to be behind the Tennessee Legislature, which has been in a wrap-up phase for the last week or two. Then a move to "punish" Memphis and a cyberattack on standardized tests injected high drama into the final days of the session.

In this week's edition of The Tri-Star State, WPLN's Jason Moon Wilkins and statehouse reporter Chas Sisk look at why a budget decision stirred a national debate on race and how lawmakers addressed more trouble with TNReady.

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Chas joined WPLN in 2015 after eight years with The Tennessean, including more than five years as the newspaper's statehouse reporter.Chas has also covered communities, politics and business in Massachusetts and Washington, D.C. Chas grew up in South Carolina and attended Columbia University in New York, where he studied economics and journalism. Outside of work, he's a dedicated distance runner, having completed a dozen marathons
Jason Moon Wilkins