This and this in February with Knox County Schools, trying to hire a debt collector for unpaid lunch bills. Earlier this month, this from WBIR of Jefferson County parents pulling together to pay off the student lunch debt. At the time of the story the debt was less than $20,000 but the debt started at $30,000.

Now this week, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signed a law providing free breakfast and lunches to Minnesota school children. Minnesota becoming the fourth state in the United States to do so.

In Tennessee, we have children sleeping on the floors of state government offices, while the state employees are presumably at their homes sleeping comfortably. We have the state legislature that passed a third grade retention bill in 2021 that must fix the bill this year. In the Friday email update from Rep. Zachary he has a Calvin Coolidge quote, “It’s much more important to kill bad bill than to pass good ones.” Of course Zachary was a Prime Co-sponsor of the third grade retention bill. It’s as if he passed it, without reading it.

While all the talk from the state legislature is not about fixing the foster care crisis or third grade retention in public schools.