Committee approves renaming, creates TCAP assessment review board after 65% miss-threshold

Feb 25, 2026

The Senate Government Operations Committee approved a bill requiring schools to report standardized tests and created an Assessment Review Board for the Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program to review questions missed by 65% of students; the verbal name-change passed and the bill advanced to Education, 6–2–1.

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Chairlady White told the Senate Government Operations Committee on Feb. 25 that Senate Bill 2403 would require each public school to submit annually to the Department of Education a list of standardized assessments and would create a statewide board to review TCAP questions that 65% of students miss.

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