5 hours ago · Tennessee lawmakers pass $447M school voucher program in major win for Gov. Bill Lee Led by the GOP supermajority, the Tennessee General Assembly approved a sweeping expansion to school choice in ...

3 hours ago · A proposed constitutional amendment in Colorado that would have established schoolchildren’s “right to school choice” also was defeated. In Tennessee, multiple local school boards passed ...

2 days ago · Tennessee House and Senate education committees passed the governor’s private-school voucher program Tuesday, speeding the $450 million first-year expense to final votes before week’s end. Senators voted 8-1 to send the measure to the finance committee to be considered Wednesday. Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson, a Franklin Republican carrying the bill for Gov. Bill Lee, told […]

Nov 6, 2024 · A new fight over school choice is already brewing, as Republican leaders on Wednesday filed a new proposal to offer publicly funded vouchers for 20,000 Tennessee students to attend private...

4 hours ago · NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — School choice advocates are celebrating the passage of HB6004, which expands school vouchers statewide starting next school year. The bill allows for public tax money ...

Nov 28, 2023 · Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee proposed a new statewide school choice program on Tuesday to offer taxpayer-funded grants to 20,000 students to attend private or home schools of their choice – and open...

Tennessee offers K–12 students and their families several types of school choice, including two private school choice programs, charter schools, magnet schools, home schooling and inter-district and intra-district public school choice via an open enrollment policy.

Nov 28, 2023 · NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Today, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee presented the Education Freedom Scholarship Act of 2024, his administration’s legislative proposal to establish statewide universal school choice, alongside members of the General Assembly, Tennessee families and education stakeholders.

Tennessee public schools educate students throughout 147 school districts and more than 1,700 public schools across the state. To find contact information for a district or school, search the school directory.

The Education Freedom Act will establish a statewide school choice program - available to all Tennessee families - and make additional significant investments in public education, bringing the Lee administration’s anticipated total investment in public education to at least $2.5 billion in 2025.