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Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee and Republican leaders — predicting passage of a private-school voucher bill in 2025 — will have to outflank conservative groups as well as opponents such as the Tennessee Education Association.
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A bill that would allow Murray State to establish Kentucky’s first veterinary school advanced out of the House Agriculture Committee Wednesday.
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Ky. substitute teachers would no longer need college credits, under bill approved in House committeeAmid a dire teacher shortage, a committee of Kentucky lawmakers advanced a measure that would allow applicants without college experience to substitute teach.
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One lawmaker warns it won’t be ‘as easy as it sounds’
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Entering the second year of a second four-year term, Gov. Bill Lee is singing the same chorus he did when he started five years ago: A heavy dose of private-school vouchers is the solution for Tennessee.
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GOP lawmakers eye dissolving governing body of Tennessee’s only public historically Black universityA proposal at the state legislature would terminate Tennessee State University’s Board of Trustees. And another bill would subsequently transfer authority over the school to the Tennessee Higher Education Commission, or THEC.
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A bill proposed in the Kentucky House of Representatives Monday would clear the path for Murray State University to offer degrees in veterinary medicine.
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Draft language has emerged — and disappeared — for Gov. Bill Lee’s school voucher expansion proposal. The plan would offer $7,075 each to up to 20,000 Tennessee students beginning next school year to pay for direct and indirect costs of attending private school and some homeschools.
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Gov. Bill Lee’s proposal to expand school vouchers statewide would offer $7,075 dollars in state funds per participant to pay for the costs of attending private school. A new report from the Education Trust in Tennessee finds that amount is more than the state is spending on public school students in more than one third of districts.
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There are now competing “school choice” amendments in the Kentucky House. House Bill 2 is the second measure filed this year that would allow the state to fund private school tuition.
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Request includes $35M for ‘newcomers,’ comes amid projected state budget deficit