Tennessee lawmakers voted Wednesday to put the state s troubled Department of Children s Services on a short leash, approving a one-year extension for the agency to get its act together.
As if Hamilton County schools didn t face enough of an uphill battle, the climb is likely to get steeper still with a bill introduced by Tennessee Sen. Todd Gardenhire, R-Chattanooga, to expand the state s private school voucher law to include our students.
The education savings account law, which now only affects districts and some students in Memphis and Nashville, would extend to Chattanooga’s Hamilton County Schools under new bill.