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School voucher programs have a proven record of failure and are especially harmful to rural students, families, and communities. ‘Why are we diverting funds from our schools,’ asks an Oklahoma ...
Tennessee opened applications for its newly expanded school vouchers, known as Education Freedom Scholarships, on May 15. As of May 19, more than 38,000 applied for the 20,000 available scholarships.
Private schools have prepared for Gov. Bill Lee’s new school voucher program with nearly 40,000 families looking to cash in ...
Pure Academy, a private boarding school for boys, says they will continue accepting applications for fall semester until the ...
When Tennessee established a second, expansive voucher program, many private schools in Shelby County opted to accept the new funds. The new program, which relaxed family-income thresholds and ...
Opponents of vouchers also argue that many of Tennessee’s rural counties do not have private schools and that lower-income families in those areas will suffer as a result. In addition ...
Tensions ran high at the Grundy County School Board Meeting on Thursday.Allison Borne, an educator in Grundy County, accused ...
The US DOE has awarded GAIN vouchers to AiMiLight, Hayward Tyler, and Standard Nuclear to support nuclear innovation through ...
Applications for Tennessee’s recently created school voucher program continue to roll in, and roughly half of the more than 38,000 such forms submitted thus far have come from families with a ...
The volume of applications for the state's new universal private school voucher program already outnumbers the total scholarships available. Within hours of the launch of the Tennessee Education ...
Roughly half of those who have applied for Tennessee's taxpayer-funded school vouchers to offset private K-12 school costs put in for scholarships with income limits, according to the Tennessee ...
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee is nothing if not determined. Following the failure of his voucher bill during the 2024 legislative session, he’s gone all out to ensure its passage this year.