Lawsuit claims Tennessee voucher expansion is unconstitutional
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (sitting on left next to Speaker Cameron Sexton), Education Commissioner Lizzette Reynolds and members of the State Board of Education are defendants in the lawsuit claiming that Tennessee’s universal school voucher program is unconstitutional. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
A group in Tennessee, including two parents in Shelby County, allege that the state’s education voucher expansion “diverts state funding to private schools statewide that are by definition not part of the system of free public schools.”
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Education Freedom Scholarship Act School vouchersLaura Testino
Laura Testino is an enterprise reporter on The Daily Memphian’s metro team who writes most often about how education policies shape the lives of children and families. She regularly contributes to coverage of breaking news events and actions of the Tennessee General Assembly. Testino’s journalism career in Memphis began six years ago at The Commercial Appeal, where she began chronicling learning disruptions associated with the pandemic, and continued with Chalkbeat, where she dug into education administration in Memphis. Her reporting has appeared in The New York Times, The Times-Picayune, The Tuscaloosa News and USA Today.
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