Unearned Waiver
TN Ed Commissioner claims tuition benefit, blames "administrative error"
Tennessee Commissioner of Education Lizzette Reynolds is under fire again. This time, for claiming a tuition waiver she had not yet earned.
Fox 17 in Nashville has more:
Her office admits Reynolds signed forms certifying she'd been a state employee for more than six months to get a tuition waiver, but that wasn't the case.
What classes was Reynolds using the waiver for?
Classes toward a Tennessee teaching certificate, which she does not have.
State law has required the Commissioner of Education to be a certified teacher for at least 100 years. Reynolds is the first appointee in that time to assume the role without having a teaching license or experience teaching in a K-12 classroom.
Fox 17 cited conservative commentator Steve Gill on the issue:
“It’s her signature. Hopefully she read the form if she’s going to be a commissioner of education and knew she was lying when she did it.
Reynolds was appointed by Gov. Lee to push his signature policy initiative, school vouchers, over the finish line.
That legislation is being considered in key legislative committees this week.
Unless her staff prepared the form ,but they should have known better, she seems to think she had better hurry up and get the courses?!! Not very professional to me!