NASHVILLE—In his haste to steal money from public schools statewide, Governor Bill Lee’s administration rushed a set of “emergency rules” through the State Board of Education yesterday with no allowance for public input. Similar to the manner in which Lee’s voucher scam was crafted, these rules and decisions that will detrimentally impact every school in Tennessee were made behind closed doors.
Governor Lee’s impatience and over-eagerness to enact a scam that he shamefully considers his “legacy” has now resulted in administrative rules that make our state more vulnerable to rampant fraud and abuse of hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars and expose the state to litigation.
House Democratic Caucus Chairman John Ray Clemmons shared his initial concerns with the emergency rules:…