School vouchers are here. What now?
The school voucher debate has been raging in Tennessee for almost two decades...
but it was just this year the Tennessee State Legislature successfully passed a law creating a statewide program. The Education Freedom Scholarship Act will provide 20,000 eligible students with about $7,300 per year in public school funds to use for private school tuition. So far, nearly 40,000 families have applied for the program.
Today we ask: now that the school voucher horse is out of the barn...what’s next? How does the program actually work? What guardrails are in place to ensure the program complies with…
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