The school voucher program passed at the Tennessee State Capitol but not everyone is celebrating it becoming law.
In one of the most hotly-contested questions in modern Tennessee political history, the legislature narrowly approved a $430 ...
The Tennessee House voted to provide educational vouchers to families in all 95 counties in the state. The vote was 54-44, ...
Both the Senate and House of Representatives have passed Gov. Bill Lee’s statewide expansion of school vouchers, otherwise ...
The bill would effectively allow public money to be used by families across the state to pay for private education costs. It ...
Many local officials in rural areas oppose school vouchers. Some state lawmakers from those areas back Gov. Bill Lee's plan.
The bill passed with 54 yays and 44 nays with one minor amendment to the bill. It now heads to the Senate floor for a vote.
Tennessee lawmakers heavily debated in a special session ahead of an educational voucher vote about the wording of the bill for students with disabilities.
Bills propose offering yearly vouchers to families statewide, but amendments have the details changing by the hour.
The Tennessee House attached an amendment to the proposal requiring local school boards to approve the program in order to ...