Image Credit: Canva submitted by Shaka Mitchell [Senior Fellow at The American Federation for Children / Tennessee Federation for Children] – Two streams of educational choice are converging: the growing number of homeschool students and the expansion of educational choice programs like Gov. Lee’s proposed Education Freedom Scholarship Accounts (EFSA). By now, it is old […]
Image Credit: Canva The Center Square [By Jon Styf] – The Tennessee Legislature’s debate on education savings accounts will continue Wednesday when competing versions of the bill are heard by the Senate Education Committee and House Education Administration. Both versions involve a significant number of the ESAs, which will start at $7,075 and can be […]
Image: Senator Jack Johnson (left); Representative William Lamberth (right) Image Credit: Senator Jack Johnson / Facebook The Tennessee Conservative [By Paula Gomes] – Republican Tennessee lawmakers are seemingly being secretive about their plans for school choice vouchers. So far, majority leaders for the House and Senate have filed “caption bills” which give only a general […]
Image Credit: Google Maps The Tennessee Conservative Staff – According to the Tennessee Court of Appeals, parents who are plaintiffs in a previously brought lawsuit regarding school vouchers can sue the state and the governor over the state’s Education Savings Account (ESA) program. The Court’s three-judge panel decided that the original plaintiffs in McEwen v. […]
First in a series of reports Image Credit: Skyler Ewing / Pexels By David Seal [Special to The Tennessee Conservative] – A tidal wave is under way. Students and teachers are leaving public education for a variety of reasons, a symptom of widespread discontent that is fueling the demand for public education money to follow […]
Image Credit: Antony-22 / CC The Center Square [By Jon Styf] – Tennessee’s 2024 legislative session will begin Tuesday with the Republican party looking to pass a budget, statewide K-12 education savings accounts, business tax cuts, enhanced school safety measures, certificate-of-need reform and health care funding. On Monday, House leadership discussed rules for session including […]
Image Credit: The Beacon Center of Tennessee The Tennessee Conservative [By Adelia Kirchner] – According to a recent poll from the Beacon Center of Tennessee, over 68% of Tennesseans support Gov. Bill Lee’s proposal to expand the state’s Education Savings Account (ESA) program. The governor announced his proposal, the Education Freedom Scholarship Act, in November […]
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