The Tennessee and Senate Education Committees passed the governor’s private school voucher program on Tuesday. By the end of the weekend, it will accelerate its first-year expenses of $455 million to the final vote.

The senator voted 8-1 to send the action to the Finance Committee to be considered Wednesday.

Senate majority leader Jack Johnson is a Franklin Republican who holds Gov. Bill Lee’s bill and says that he “empowers families to do something for their children, and we are We said we will meet the needs we haven’t met with this public school system we run together. Our locals.”

Johnson insisted on an order to hand over the action from President Donald Trump. President Donald Trump claimed he posted on his true social platform to support the efforts of Tennessee lawmakers to adopt “school choices.”

“We’re aiming to bring US education to the highest level and something we’ve never reached before,” Trump said in his post.

Lee’s plans, which zoom to the final votes in this week’s special session, offer more than $7,000 each, with over 20,000 students, each expanding to around 5,000 a year. Half of first year students may come from families with 300% of federal poverty levels and an estimated $175,000 in a family of four, while the rest have no income limits. From the first year onwards, the program will not be subject to maximum income.

A financial analysis by the state’s Financial Review Board found that K-12 schools would lose $45 million, while 12 districts with the highest chance of losing students would cost just $3.3 million.

Senate Minority Leader Raumesh Akbari in Memphis was the only vote on the bill as he urged the committee to “feel a little more attention.” Akbari tells the Senator that students participating in the state’s Education Savings Account Program, which provides vouchers to enroll in private schools in Davidson, Hamilton and Shelby counties, are becoming more academically worse than their peers. It reminded me.

By contrast, Calhoun Republican Sen. Adam Lowe said standardized tests were not a determinant of passing the bill. Lowe also believes Hawkins County Schools Director Matt Hixon will have to support the voucher bill, saying that local leaders in Upper East Tennessee must support the voucher bill, and Congress has said that Hurricane Helen’s disaster relief efforts He said he shouldn’t be worried about saying he could refuse to approve $420 million for the event.

The House Panel approved the plan by 17-7 votes after Republican lawmakers used procedural moves to bypass debate over the bill. Rep. Jake McCalmon of Williamson County called for an immediate vote following public testimony backed by Rep. William Slater of Sumner County. The move prevented opponents from questioning House Majority Leader William Lamberth, who sponsors the bill.

Knoxville Democrat Gloria Johnson called the move “silly” because of the impact the bill had on public schools and state budgets.

Johnson complains that the state will run two school systems and likely will likely hit financial issues, and that the bill will lose students to private school voucher programs to make public schools “all the whole thing.” I challenged Lamberth’s claim to be “.

However, Lamberth said public schools will not lose “one red cent” as a result of the program.