Tennessee will offer $7,300 per student through its new universal school voucher program, costing $146 million.

Tennessee isn’t asking where the participants were enrolled before, so it won’t know how many vouchers are going to existing ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - The Tennessee Department of Education will not be tracking whether applicants for the Education Freedom Scholarship Program are already enrolled in a private school or not.

Applications for the program open at noon on Thursday. In the 2025-26 school year, the scholarship will provide eligible students with $7,295 to use toward tuition and fees.

Tennessee’s new school voucher program, which will provide 20,000 scholarships for students to attend private schools, will open for applications on May 15.

The Tennessee universal school voucher program will use public funds to help families pay for private education expenses.

Next month, public school families will be able to apply for private school vouchers in Tennessee, and some parents are counting down the days.

The measure would create a national program funding private school tuition through tax credits, though states would have to ...

Tennessee's new school voucher program has raised concerns among some Democratic and Republican lawmakers, as the state isn't ...

The plan, part of the Republican domestic policy bill, includes all but the wealthiest families. But states must opt in, ...

Tennessee GOP Rep. Jody Barrett says the legislature should make the Department of Education give more facts about school ...

Responding to criticism about Tennessee’s applications for private-school vouchers, Gov. Bill Lee said this week the state doesn’t need to know whether students were enrolled in private schools before ...