SHELBY COUNTY, Tenn. — Governor Lee’s expanded school voucher bill would fund 20,000 private school scholarships each year across the state. Each family would get just over $7,000 to pay for tuition, and the governor wants to give every public school teacher in Tennessee a one-time bonus of $2,000.
“The big question I hear from some of my teachers in West Tennessee is, ‘Could this create a system that could be harboring segregation?’ We’re creating a 2-tiered system because what will be left will be minorities in public schools,” said JC Bowman, Executive Director of the Professional Educators of Tennessee.
Here in the Mid-South, $7,000 wouldn’t come close to the full cost of tuition at some of the area’s best known private schools…