After a summer of sweltering classrooms and heat-exhausted athletes, some parents in Tennessee are organizing in support of state legislation to ban public schools from opening earlier than the week before Labor Day. But they'll face unified opposition to such a state mandate from most of the statewide education organizations, which want to retain flexibility for local school boards to set their own school calendars.
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Earlier: A brutally hot August that shut down schools across Tennessee and sent students to the hospital has parents demanding a later school start date. Over the last two decades, the addition of mid-semester vacation days and federal testing has meant the first day of school has progressively gotten earlier.
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