Tennessee lawmakers pass $447M school voucher program in major win for Gov. Bill Lee
The new Education Freedom Scholarship program will offer 20,000 scholarships of about $7,300 to Tennessee students to attend ...
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School vouchers a civil rights issue or ‘predatory lending’? Special session debate looms
In other states, roughly 75% of voucher users were already enrolled in private schools, Cowen has found. For students that ...
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Texas bill that lets families use tax dollars for private schools swiftly sails through Senate
School voucher supporters ... The Texas Education Agency, for comparison, considers a student low income if they reside in a household earning between 130% and 185% of the poverty level ...
Tennessee Republicans push vouchers to brink of passage: What lawmakers did Tuesday
In the first full day of committees during Tennessee's special legislative session, Republicans pushed an expanded school ...
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School vouchers a civil rights issue or ‘predatory lending’? Special session debate looms
In other states, roughly 75% of voucher users were already enrolled in private schools, Cowen has found. For students that don’t transfer from the public system, there’s no data to compare ...
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Tennessee lawmakers pass $447M school voucher program in major win for Gov. Bill Lee
No vouchers! No vouchers ... the state has an “apples to apples” comparison of student achievement. “You all insist that every single public school perform well. But you’re not ...
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As 2025-26 applications open, big bump in number of vouchers first seen in data
The number of vouchers is up 46,823 since the expansion of school choice. Currently, 79,372 NC students receive vouchers.
Tennessee lawmakers just passed a $447M school choice bill. Here's what it does
The Tennessee legislature approved Gov. Bill Lee's signature education initiative during a special legislative session.