Special Session convenes with major shakeup to the House Education Committee
Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton, R-Crossville, opened the first day of the special session on Governor Bill Lee’s Education Freedom Scholarship Act of 2025 by replacing half of the members serving on the influential House Education Committee.
Repayment of lost revenue for school districts could play an important role in next week’s special session on “school vouchers”
One major difference between Governor Bill Lee’s proposal this year to let families use public dollars to send their children to private school, sometimes referred to as school vouchers, and last year’s plan that failed, is a provision designed to ease fears about potential lost revenue for school districts.