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At its June meeting, the Franklin Special School District Board of Education approved an expanded tuition policy, which will allow students from outside of Williamson County to apply on a tuition basis. In addition, the Board voted to allow employees to enroll out-of-district children and grandchildren in the FSSD at no cost, providing there is program space available.

Mark your summer calendars! The FSSD Story Bus is a free community service offered in the summer by the Franklin Special School District and designed to foster a love of reading in children. The program runs from June 6-July 21, 2022.

Our reading and math coaches have created a video to help our students prepare for the upcoming TCAP assessments!

We are excited to begin registration for Young Scholars Institute this summer. The Young Scholars Institute consists of two independent week-long camps and will occur June 6-10 and June 13-17 at Freedom Intermediate School, 840 Glass Lane.

We are excited to introduce our new Tiger Read Aloud program. We have recently
developed a small collection of books (thanks to a special grant from the Gentry
Educational Foundation) for children to select one in addition to their regular weekly
books. This book will be a special book for you to read aloud to your child.

Five Franklin Special School District schools have been awarded RTI2-B Model of Demonstration (MOD) schools, as announced January 20, 2022, by the Tennessee Tiered Supports Center (TSC) at Vanderbilt University. 

The Board of Education voted on November 29 to rescind the mask requirement for students, staff, and visitors. Citing low positive cases in the school and the community, as well as the availability of the vaccine to ages 5 and older, the Board voted unanimously to lift the requirement. Anyone who chooses to wear a mask in the schools or offices is welcome to do so.