Gov. Bill Lee says 2,000 families in Memphis, Nashville have applied for school vouchers
“Our task is to create and engage in a process that is of high quality,” Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee said of the recently activated school voucher program during a Friday, July 29, visit to Memphis. (Bill Dries/Daily Memphian)
Lee said Friday, July 29, at Knowledge Quest’s Teen Tech Center that more than 2,000 families in Memphis and Nashville have applied for school vouchers and 40 schools have expressed interest in accepting those vouchers.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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