The governor hopes to launch the program for 20,000 students by the next school year, a tight deadline for the state to meet.

Charter school operators would have more options to bypass local school board approval under a proposal backed by Gov. Bill Lee.

Gov. Bill Lee will sign legislation designed to drastically expand school voucher access throughout the Volunteer State that ...

Lee said the program would 'change the future of Tennessee forever'. Gov. Bill Lee signed his long-awaited private school voucher program into law on Wednesday but would not commit to using a ...

There's been a wave of school chaplain bills in red states, which has fueled fierce backlash about religious overreach in ...

It will take effect as soon as he signs it, allowing the Tennessee Department of Education ... the room over the funding ...

Gov. Bill Lee signed Tennessee’s universal school voucher bill into law Wednesday, officially kicking off the state’s push to ...

Bill Lee on Wednesday signed legislation ... status in the U.S. from participating in the latest school voucher program, Tennessee Republicans have also introduced a separate proposal that would ...

"I've long believed we can have the best public schools and give parents a choice in their child's education, regardless of ...

The Tennessee Department of Education said Thursday it was still working to implement the statewide voucher program. It said it still needs to partner with the state's board of education to promulgate ...