Nashville Rep. exposes Bill Lee’s voucher lies
Nashville State Rep. Caleb Hemmer is calling out Gov. Lee’s voucher lies – exposing Lee as unwilling to meaningfully invest in public schools while pushing a private school voucher scam.
Once again, this new version is jam-packed with all kinds of seemingly nice things tacked on to try and distract people from the fact that this is all a scam designed to defund public education. Lee and his voucher scammers want you to pay attention to the long overdue teacher raises and the newly-dedicated funding source for school construction projects promised in the bill.
But let’s face it − if they were really serious about the proposals, they would have already done them. They wouldn’t have to tie them to a bait-and-switch scheme to designed to undermine public education and make out-of-state billionaire voucher backers happy.
The new money for teachers in Lee’s latest voucher proposal is a one-time bonus, not a long-term commitment to better pay.
While Lee claims to support investment in school infrastructure, schools are still waiting for funds while the Tennessee Titans have $500 million in state money for their new (smaller) stadium.
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