The Tennessee Court of Appeals upheld a lower court decision that Governor Bill Lee’s voucher plan is unconstitutional.
The voucher plan was supposed to be installed only in Memphis and Nashville, over the objections of their representatives. The deciding vote was cast by a legislator from Knoxville, after he was promised that the voucher program would not include his district.
A victory for friends of public schools and communities in Tennessee!
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Rare enough to deserve all of those !!!!!!
“We’re seeing firsthand how school choice could have been tremendously impactful for the thousands of low-income kids who have no available in-person learning option. Today’s ruling is disappointing and we will appeal it so families have options for their children,” said spokesman Gillum Ferguson in an email.
The above quote from the Tennessean, Nashvile’s newspaper. Once again, we see the process by which a very few students may be singled out to receive a privilege, as opposed to funding education as a general right for all. The latter mig be too expensive for the governor, who wants to be Low tax Lee.
So let me get this straight, in Tennessee, the state legislature can’t impose privatization on counties, according to the state constitution? Well, now! That’s a good rule to follow.
Just when I thought, my state has completely turned into Trumpland, this unexpected good news. Wow!
They may try to appeal the decision in the TN supreme court, but I seriously start believing, they have no chance.