Tennessee House and Senate education committees passed the governor’s private-school voucher program Tuesday, speeding the ...

A push to expand Tennessee's controversial school voucher program will take center stage in a special legislative session.

Tennessee students held their ground on a major national test in a year when average student test scores declined nationwide.

The governor and the legislature’s GOP leaders are seeking even more funding for the program’s first year than the ...

Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris is lobbying lawmakers to drop the state takeover, hoping cooler heads will prevail.

Friday we heard from officials in the wake of Tennessee's "Education Freedom Act" passing in both chambers of the General ...

The new Education Freedom Scholarship program will offer 20,000 scholarships of about $7,300 to Tennessee students to attend ...

Bills propose offering yearly vouchers to families statewide, but amendments have the details changing by the hour.

Tennessee gives public agencies wide latitude to refuse to release data. That made it challenging for our reporters to figure ...

The bill passed the House with 54 ayes to 44 nays and one amendment to the bill. The amendment requires school boards across ...

Leaders of multiple East Tennessee public school districts are sharing reactions to the decision of state lawmakers to approve Governor Bill Lee’s statewide expansion of school vouchers.

According to the terms of the bill, 20,000 total “scholarships” would be available. Parents in Tennessee can receive about $7,000 in public taxpayer money to send their children to a private school if ...