Public Money, Private Profits

School vouchers in Tennessee

Andy Spears
2 min readAug 8, 2024
Photo by Fabian Blank on Unsplash

School vouchers transfer public money to the hands of private operators.

These privatizers often have little or no accountability — that is, they don’t report how they spend the money to taxpayers. There is not an elected oversight board.

Tennessee currently has a limited school voucher program, and Gov. Bill Lee wants to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to expand that program statewide.

A story I wrote about Lee’s struggles to get members of his own party to support vouchers earned “featured” status over at ManyStories.

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Andy Spears

Writer and policy advocate living in Nashville, TN —Public Policy Ph.D. — writes on education policy, consumer affairs, and more . . .