State Opens Enrollment For Tennessee Education Savings Account
The State Has Launched A Website For Eligible Families To Enroll In The Tennessee Education Savings Account Program.
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Tennessee Supreme Court Denies Nashville’s Request To Reconsider School Voucher Program
Tennessee’s Supreme Court Will Not Reconsider Its Prior Ruling On An Educational Savings Plan In Nashville And Memphis.
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Metro Nashville Asks Tennessee Supreme Court For Another Look At School Voucher Decision
Rather Than Accepting The Tennessee Supreme Court’s Recent Decision To Allow The State’s Pilot Education Savings Account Program To Move Forward, Metro Nashville Is Asking The Court To Rethink Its Decision.
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Governor’s School Funding Plan Not Likely To Avert State Lawsuit
Two Democratic Legislators Predicted Tuesday The Governor’s K-12 Funding Plan Won’t Persuade Metro Nashville Or Shelby County School Districts To Drop A Lawsuit Over Education Funding.
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Lee Denies Any Knowledge Of National Guard Offer For Voucher Vote
For The Second Time, Gov. Bill Lee Denied Knowledge Monday Of A National Guard Promotion Offer To Rep. John Mark Windle In Return For A Vote In Favor Of The Education Savings Account Bill In 2019.
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State Supreme Court Rehears Arguments Surrounding School Voucher Program
The Tennessee Supreme Court Listened Again To Arguments Concerning Governor Bill Lee’s Controversial School Voucher Program, Which Allows Eligible Students To Use State Education Funding To Attend Private Schools.
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Representative White Hopes To Kill School Choice Bill At Taxpayer-Funded Lobbyist Urging
Representative White Is Sponsoring A Bill That Will Repeal All The Changes Made By Last Year’s Open Enrollment Bill And Allow School Districts To Return To How They Operated In The Past Where Each District Was Permitted To Create Their Own Policy.
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TN School Voucher Bill Draws Chilly Reception In House
The Latest School Voucher Bill Is Barely Out Of Pandora’s Box And Already Tennessee House Members Are Dissing It.
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Beacon Center’s 2021 Pork Report Highlights Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars Of Waste, Fraud & Abuse In TN
The Beacon Center Of Tennessee Has Released This Year’s “Pork Report” In An Appropriately-Themed “Recipe Book” Entitled 12 Recipes For Government Waste, Fraud And Abuse. The Tongue-In-Cheek Recipes Lay Out The Problems And Offer Up Workable Conservative Solutions.
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Battle Lines Drawn Over Governor’s Education Funding Review
Gov. Bill Lee And Supporters Call His Statewide Review Of Tennessee’s K-12 Funding Formula An Effort To Target Money To Fit Each Student’s Needs. Critics, In Contrast, Say It Is An Effort To Fast Track And Funnel State Dollars To Private Schools.
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