Tennessee

This snapshot of school health policies in Tennessee is intended to provide parents, educators, school healthofficials, policy-makers, and all others invested in student health with a place to start in becoming educated about the basics of school health issues and needs in Tennessee.

About the Society

The Society of State Leaders of Health and Physical Education is a professional association whose members supervise and coordinate programs in health, physical education, and related fields within state departments of education.
For more information and for additional educational tools, please visit www.thesociety.org.

Intent

This state school health snapshot is provided for education purposes only and is not intended as a policy-making
or ranking tool.

Sources

"F as in Fat" policy addendum
NASBE School Health Policy Database
Bullypolice.org policy database
Guttmacher Institute State Policies in Brief "Sex and HIV Education"