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Tag: Educational Savings Account

Flurry of Late-Session Tennessee Bills Await Lee’s Approval

May 2, 2023May 1, 2023 The Center Square

A flurry of legislative action before Tennessee closed its session April 21 has left a stack of passed bills either on Gov. Bill Lee’s desk or headed there.

Once a bill is passed, it needs to be signed by both House Speaker Cameron Sexton and Senate Speaker Randy McNally before it heads to Lee’s desk. Then Lee has 10 days, not counting Sundays, to either sign or veto a bill or it will become law without his signature. Since the Legislature is not in session, bills are then sent to the Tennessee’s Secretary of State.

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Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson Explains School Choice Decision and Governor Lee’s School Safety Executive Order

June 15, 2022June 14, 2022 Julie Carr

Leahy was joined on the newsmaker line by Tennessee State Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson, to discuss school choice and Governor Bill Lee’s executive order on school safety.

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Southeastern Legal Foundation’s Braden Boucek on Status of ESA Offering Educational Options to Davidson, Shelby County Families

June 7, 2022June 6, 2022 Julie Carr

Monday morning on The Tennessee Star Report, host Leahy welcomed Southeastern Legal Foundation’s Director of Litigation Braden Boucek to the newsmaker line to explain how the educational savings account works and updates on pending litigation that proves the state is not interested in letting parents control their children’s education.

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Maury County Mayor Ogles and Americans for Prosperity-Tennessee’s Henry Discuss Funding Students, Not Bureaucracy

August 25, 2021August 25, 2021 Julie Carr

Tuesday morning on the Tennessee Star Report, host Michael Patrick Leahy welcomed Mayor Ogles and AMF’s Henry to the studio to weigh in on federal government funding to local state schools and the motivation for school choice.

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Tennessee Court of Appeals Rules Governor Lee’s ESA Program ‘Unconstitutional’

September 30, 2020October 1, 2020 Corinne Murdock

The Tennessee Court of Appeals ruled Governor Bill Lee’s educational savings account (ESA) program “unconstitutional” on Tuesday. The court’s decision upheld a lower court’s ruling on the school voucher program.
The court of appeals ruled that the unconstitutionality of the ESA program is because “is local in effect, and applicable to Davidson and Shelby counties in their governmental capacity.” This decision references article XI, section 9, paragraph 2 of the Tennessee Constitution. 

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