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A state-appointed committee with wide-ranging control over Memphis Shelby County Schools would have contracting authority over the district’s $2 billion budget and could have a member from outside Shelby County, under a report adopted Monday. A House-Senate panel of eight Republicans and two Democrats adopted a plan requiring a state “takeover” of school districts statewide […]
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters Sign up for Chalkbeat Tennessee’s free newsletter to keep up with statewide education policy and Memphis-Shelby County Schools. The Memphis-Shelby County school board voted unanimously Tuesday night to hire a lawyer to challenge the state takeover legislation Tennessee Republicans finalized yesterday.
Tennessee’s legislature is considering a massive expansion of the state’s first private-school voucher program for low-income students, only a week after bolstering a separate voucher system available to all students. The move could dramatically expand the Education Savings Account program, which has only about 4,800 students enrolled in Metro Nashville, Memphis Shelby County and Hamilton […]