Tennessee lawmakers have approved legislation drastically expanding the number of families who can use taxpayer money on ...
The legislature’s Republican supermajority left little room for debate, pushing through millions of dollars and sprawling ...
The new Education Freedom Scholarship program will offer 20,000 scholarships of about $7,300 to Tennessee students to attend a school of their choice.
States are handing multimillion-dollar contracts to a handful of fledgling private companies to manage the rapidly growing, ...
The Tennessee House attached an amendment to the proposal requiring local school boards to approve the program in order to access $2,000 bonuses for teachers.
A push to reinstate South Carolina’s private school voucher program cleared a major hurdle at the State House on Thursday.
An East Tennessee Republican admitted Monday to being pressured to vote for the governor’s private school voucher bill as the legislature speeds the measure toward a vote. “Oh, you wouldn’t believe,” ...
Republican Governor Bill Lee also called the special session to pass bills related to recovery efforts after Hurricane Helene. Those bills also passed.
who are bankrolling Republican leaders to push school vouchers. Ultra-wealthy conservatives have made dismantling public education their mission, even descending upon Washington ready to disband ...
Greg Abbott has been championing since the 2023 legislative session, when the proposal deeply divided Republicans, with some GOP House members joining Democrats to kill school voucher legislation.
whose associated School Freedom Fund PAC spent $3.6 million in August seeking to flip five legislative seats pro-voucher, recently wrote an opinion column openly threatening to primary GOP ...