Who gets to decide what students learn?
Tennessee State Senator Bo Watson has introduced legislation to allow public schools to deny enrollment to undocumented children, setting up a challenge of the 1982 Supreme Court decision in Plyler vs Doe.
Who should decide who our students are and what they should learn? Who should be running our schools? Politicians, teachers or parents?
That’s a question the nation is debating today, and that question was one of the core arguments debated during the 1925 Scopes Trial.
Visit the Scopes Trial Play & Festivities July 11-19, at the Rhea County Courthouse to see where this debate started 100 years ago. For more information and tickets, check out scopes100.com.
JUNE 26, 1925—THIS DAY IN SCOPES HISTORYTennessee Governor Austin Peay informs Walter White that he’ll not testify at the Scopes Trial because “I know no fact which could conce...
New bluegrass group Wilson and Cross takes the stageWilson and Cross, a new bluegrass group hailing from East Tennessee, will take the stage June 27 for the final night of the Nokian Tyres...
Joe C. DeVille Band performs at Nokian Tyre Summer NightsChattanooga cover band Joe C. DeVille Band performed Friday night at the Nokian Tyre Summer Nights concert series on the Rhea County Cou...
Wilson and Cross will play Summer Nights finaleWilson and Cross, a new bluegrass group hailing from East Tennessee, will take the stage June 27 for the final night of the Nokian Tyres...
Wilson and Cross closes out summer concert series June 27Read More
Jun 27, 2025
6:30 PM EDT
1475 Market Street
Dayton, TN 37321
Scopes Trial Play: Destiny in DaytonRead More
Jul 11, 2025
7:00 PM EDT
1475 Market Street
Dayton, TN 37321
