Tennessee built a billion-dollar voucher program designed not to know if it works.
When Tennessee’s legislature debated school vouchers in early 2025, supporters promised the program would help students escape failing public schools while preserving the independence of private education. They looked voters in the eye and said this was about educational opportunity for struggling students. The reality emerging from the state’s Education Freedom Act tells a different […]
We strongly oppose efforts to expand so-called “school choice” in Tennessee. Buyer beware.
Consider that as we begin advocacy on the House and Senate bills for school choice here in Tennessee, the House bill (projected ~38-page omnibus) has yet to be released and the Senate bill provides nothing more than what can be construed as boilerplate language. Yet, both of these bills are scheduled to be heard in […]