Tennessee 2025 2025-2026 Regular Session

Tennessee Senate Bill SJR0223 Draft / Bill

Filed 03/11/2025

                     
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SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION 223 
By Haile 
 
 
SJR0223 
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A RESOLUTION to congratulate Westmoreland High School on 
being named a 2023-2024 Reward School. 
 
 WHEREAS, it is fitting that we should pay tribute to those public schools in Tennessee 
that, through the natural talents and unflagging commitment to academic excellence evidenced 
by their administration, faculty, staff, students, and parents, have achieved significant 
milestones; and 
 WHEREAS, Westmoreland High School is one such school that was recently honored 
as a 2023-2024 Reward School by the Tennessee Department of Education, the top distinction 
a school can earn in Tennessee; and 
 WHEREAS, Reward Schools are recognized as the top schools in this State based on 
academic achievements and by meeting annual measurable objectives across performance 
indicators and student groups; and 
 WHEREAS, Principal Rick Duffer and the administration, faculty, and staff of 
Westmoreland High School have built an environment that ensures students have the very best 
atmosphere for learning; and 
 WHEREAS, Westmoreland High School's selection as a Reward School is a tremendous 
source of pride for the administration, teachers, students, and parents of the community; and 
 WHEREAS, the dedication to academic excellence demonstrated by all the fine 
individuals affiliated with Westmoreland High School is clearly deserving of the respect, 
admiration, and commendation of this body; now, therefore, 
 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED FOURTEENTH 
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENN ESSEE, THE HOUSE OF 
REPRESENTATIVES CONCURRING, that we congratulate Westmoreland High School on   
 
 
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being named a 2023-2024 Reward School, salute the school's administration, faculty, staff, 
students, and parents on this prestigious honor, and extend to them our best wishes for 
continued success in the future. 
 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that an appropriate copy of this resolution be prepared 
for presentation with this final clause omitted from such copy and upon proper request made to 
the appropriate clerk, the language appearing immediately following the State seal appear 
without House or Senate designation.