AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, relative to education.
- Introduced
- Failed
Overview
This bill imposes requirements on private schools that accept students using education savings accounts, individualized education accounts, or education freedom scholarships, including website transparency, teacher licensing, standardized assessments, and letter grades.
Why it matters: Homeschoolers who use these state-funded education programs would be subject to these new regulations, including mandatory testing and potential grading requirements that could affect their program flexibility.
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Official summary
As introduced, requires private schools that participate in the education savings account program or the individualized education account program, or that enroll recipients of an education freedom scholarship, to publish various items on the school's website; requires such private schools to ensure educators hold a valid license to teach and are evaluated in the same manner as public school teachers; requires students participating in any such program to be administered various assessments; requires the department of education to assign a school letter grade to such private schools. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Sponsors
- Gloria Johnson (D)
Status timeline
- 2026-03-17Failed in s/c K-12 Subcommittee of Education CommitteeH
- 2026-03-11Placed on s/c cal K-12 Subcommittee for 3/17/2026H
- 2026-03-10Action Def. in s/c K-12 Subcommittee to 3/17/2026H
- 2026-03-04Placed on s/c cal K-12 Subcommittee for 3/10/2026H
- 2026-03-03Action Def. in s/c K-12 Subcommittee to 3/10/2026H
- 2026-02-25Placed on s/c cal K-12 Subcommittee for 3/3/2026H
- 2026-02-05Assigned to s/c K-12 SubcommitteeH
- 2026-02-05P2C, ref. to Education CommitteeH
- 2026-02-04Intro., P1C.H
- 2026-02-02Filed for introductionH
H = House · S = Senate · A = Assembly