Tennessee legislature puts hundreds of millions toward private-school vouchers
In one of the most hotly-contested questions in modern Tennessee political history, the legislature narrowly approved a $430 million private-school voucher program that critics say will grow quickly to $1 billion and endanger the state’s budget.
The Tennessee House voted to provide educational vouchers to families in all 95 counties in the state. The vote was 54-44, ...
Many local officials in rural areas oppose school vouchers. Some state lawmakers from those areas back Gov. Bill Lee's plan.
Bills propose offering yearly vouchers to families statewide, but amendments have the details changing by the hour.
Tennessee lawmakers heavily debated in a special session ahead of an educational voucher vote about the wording of the bill for students with disabilities.
In the first full day of committees during Tennessee's special legislative session, Republicans pushed an expanded school ...
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Tennessee’s Republican-dominant Statehouse has begun considering Gov. Bill Lee’s push for more school voucher access ...
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