The school voucher program passed at the Tennessee State Capitol but not everyone is celebrating it becoming law. Critics said it's "welfare for the wealthy" with a limited number of vouchers at a ...

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 ...

School vouchers, which are offered to a limited number of students in Tennessee right now through the existing Education Savings Account program, allow families to use taxpayer dollars to offset ...

Initially, the three-year pilot program would have begun during the 2020-21 school year and provided vouchers funded by state dollars to students to pay to attend private schools.

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. Skip to content.

Tennessee’s new school voucher program applications open Thursday. Here’s what you need to know. If a family is approved, they’ll get an email with next steps on how to enroll in a ...

On the first day of school in Memphis and Nashville this week, no students were approved to use school vouchers and no private schools were approved to accept them. The Tennessee Department of ...

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee's plans to expand school vouchers and allow families to access public funds for private schooling has come to an end as legislative leaders do not reach an agreement.

Tennessee's school voucher program, allowing students to use public dollars to attend private schools, is rapidly increasing, according to data released by the Tennessee Department of Education.

How Tennessee’s expanded school voucher program would be implemented by: Naomi Hillmer. Posted: Feb 6, 2025 / 06:41 PM EST. Updated: Feb 6, 2025 / 06:51 PM EST. by: Naomi Hillmer.