Governor’s Education Freedom Scholarship Plan faces uphill battle for passage
Governor Lee’s signature education proposal this year appears to be on life support. Tuesday afternoon both the Senate Finance, Ways,.
House Committee debates accountability and cost of Education Freedom Scholarships
The House Government Operations Committee advanced Governor Bill Lee’s Education Freedom Scholarship Act Monday with a positive recommendation following a.
- by Sky Arnold
- March 19, 2024
Questions remain after Education Freedom Scholarship Act passes two key committees
Walter Blanks Jr. says his experience with public schools growing up in an economically disadvantaged neighborhood in Columbus, Ohio was.
- by Sky Arnold
- March 7, 2024
Three competing plans to allow students to attend private school with public dollars come with vastly different testing requirements
When Governor Bill Lee announced his Education Freedom Scholarship Act last year, he made it a point to say the.
- by Sky Arnold
- February 29, 2024
Massive House proposal is third universal school voucher bill before Tennessee lawmakers
Three school voucher proposals now before Tennessee lawmakers would create a new statewide program that eventually could open eligibility to.
- by Marta W. Aldrich, Chalkbeat Tennessee
- February 27, 2024
House Education Chair supports accountability, opposes “pop-up schools” benefiting from private school scholarship plan
When Governor Bill Lee unveiled his proposed program to offer taxpayer funded private-school scholarships Tuesday, Tennessee House Education Administration Chair.
- by Sky Arnold
- December 1, 2023
Governor Lee unveils statewide program to allow families to use taxpayer dollars to attend private school
Arieale Munson says the private school her 12-year-old son Steven attends in Memphis is putting him on the path to.
- by Sky Arnold
- November 29, 2023