It’s not a happy ending
A look at the voucher scheme in Florida offers a preview of where Tennessee is heading – and it’s not good.
An analyst in the state notes:
Peter Greene explores the Florida situation further, digging in with information from a professor from Florida State:
Cottle also wants to point out another factor. Florida used to run a huge budget surplus, but now it’s running a deficit. Cottle and others are trying to raise an alarm about math instruction and the need to improve math instruction, particularly by recruiting and retaining high-quality teachers. But the “still-growing budget for school choice vouchers is surely competing for money with ideas for initiatives to improve student learning, and the voucher budget is winning.”
In Tennessee, we should be alarmed:
Over the course of the next five years, as state funding is gobbled up by a privatization scheme and local taxes increase even as services offered remain the same or decrease, we can look back on this moment as the nail in the coffin of Tennessee public education.
Gov. Bill Lee won – and a generation of Tennessee students will lose as a result.
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