HJR 92 / Protects homeschooling as a fundamental right in our state constitution.
Constitutional Amendments – Proposes an amendment to Article XI, Section 12 of the Constitution of Tennessee to establish that parents have the inherent right to direct the education of the parent’s child; prohibits the state from interfering with such rights through the adoption or enforcement of any law or rule that abridges, infringes upon, or […]
The real cost of school choice is beginning to become more evident.
Tennesseans are still waiting on a final draft for legislation implementing Governor Bill Lee’s big push for school choice here in Tennessee. In the meantime, national special interest groups like Americans for Prosperity and the American Federation for Children are busy pushing the narrative that parents deserve a choice in educating their children. Of course, […]
Continuing the school choice debate.
National pundits continue to parrot the talking points for school choice stating that no regulations are going to follow the money. But, they can cite no historical examples where regulations do not follow government funding. In an interview with the Pampleteer in Nashville, Corey DeAngelis, a self-professed school choice evangelist, acknowledges that school choice is […]
The abrogation of rights by rulemaking.
A couple of weeks ago, we tried to answer the question of many homeschool parents as they were registering their students through homeschool umbrella programs in Tennessee. “Why am I being asked the immunization status of my homeschool child?” The confusion came about because of the passage this year of HB252 by Rep. Jody Barrett […]