To the Editor: Gov. Bill Lee and our elected officials in Nashville are proposing to give $7,075 to students who attend private schools. There is no good reason to support this preposterous legislation. There are many reasons to oppose it, some of which I list below: Gov. Bill Lee delivers his State of the State […]
This article was originally published in Georgia Recorder. Following five years of unsuccessful attempts by Georgia Republican lawmakers to expand the state’s school voucher program, GOP Senators on Wednesday cast enough votes to send the latest version of the controversial plan to Gov. Brian Kemp’s desk to be signed into law. On Wednesday, several Republican […]
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Republicans powered a voucher plan funding private school tuition and home schooling through the state House on Thursday, nearing a goal that has long eluded the state’s school choice advocates as GOP leaders overcame longstanding skepticism from some rural members of their party The House voted 91-82 for Senate Bill 233, […]
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia House Speaker Jon Burns is leaning into the push to pass a voucher plan funding private school tuition and home schooling, looking to change the minds of fellow Republican skeptics. Burns made what he said was his first-ever appearance at a House Education Committee meeting Wednesday. He urged the panel to […]
After facing decades of fierce bipartisan resistance to the idea of using state dollars to pay for private school tuition, school voucher supporters in Texas emerged from the Tuesday primaries triumphant. Their long-held goal has never felt more in reach. Gov. Greg Abbott succeeded in knocking off nine fellow Republicans who opposed vouchers in the […]
A record-breaking total of nearly 72,000 families applied this year for state funding to help them pay for the cost for attending a North Carolina private school, making it unlikely all of them will get the money they want. State lawmakers overhauled the Opportunity Scholarship program to allow any family to apply this year for […]
If you placed a Panera Bread delivery order between October 2020 and August 2021, you may be eligible to receive a settlement payment. Three separate class action lawsuits filed in Missouri, California and Illinois allege Panera’s representation of its delivery fees and delivery menu prices on the Panera app and website were false and misleading, […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — With a supermajority grip over the Tennessee Statehouse, there are very few things Republicans can’t push through even with the harshest of criticism and public opposition. Yet, after weeks of working behind closed doors on a sweeping school voucher plan that would give coveted public dollars to many more families to […]
In the winter of 1990, the Kramer family from Los Gatos decided to drive down to Southern California for the spring break and take their 7-year-old son and 3-year-old daughter to Universal Studios. But Mother Nature had different plans. It was pouring in LA then, forcing the park to temporarily close some of the most […]
RUTHERFORD COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) – Parents and teachers in the Rutherford County community are upset over Gov. Bill Lee’s school voucher proposal. On Thursday, Feb. 8, they expressed their concerns at a rally outside the school board building. The group of parents and teachers are making their stance known on the expanded school voucher proposal. […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nearly five years after narrowly convincing lawmakers to allow a select number of families to use tax dollars for private schooling, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on Monday stood before the GOP-dominant Legislature with a much more ambitious pitch: Make school vouchers universal throughout the state. It’s a proposal that would be […]
This article was originally published in Nebraska Examiner. LINCOLN — The next front in Nebraska’s school choice fight could shift toward a proposal by State Sen. Ben Hansen of Blair under which the state would deposit $1,500 a year per student into a new type of state-managed savings account for parents and guardians of students […]