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Back home covering TN state government for the new Nashville Banner. Previously at POLITICO, Seattle Times, Chattanooga TFP.
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You’re the best sports reporter around and this stuff is so important. Proud of you!
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Every year, my friend and fiercely dedicated First Amendment reporter @angelelatham.bsky.social files an enormous amount of public records requests to track banned books in Tennessee. She found a record number in 2024. Read her in-depth analysis here, complete with input from 1A experts.
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Yeah the dynamic between homeschoolers and vouchers/charter policy is a separate and interesting issue probably worth its own story.
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One-time*
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Now lawmakers are adjourned until they resume the regular session. On Feb. 10, Lee will deliver his State of the State address. Lee said yesterday he will use the speech to spell out new priorities since his top goal of vouchers has been met. (7/7)
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This was in the Flyer, our daily newsletter, a couple of days ago. You should sign up for that if you want to know what's going on five days a week. It only costs your email:
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Lee was in lockstep with President Donald Trump the whole time, adding immigration to the scope of the session at Trump's behest and Trump adding encouragement for vouchers on social media and committing some federal funding to school choice Tuesday night (6/7)
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Between these two bills and about $450 million for hurricane relief, the special session cost nearly $1 billion. The school voucher program is also estimated to cost over $1 billion in the next five years. (5/7)
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The criteria for those grants aren't super clear and will be determined by the director of the new immigration division, who will be appointed by Lee. After some last-minute changes, the governor is putting $5 million on-time toward the program. (4/7)
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The bill also creates a new statewide enforcement division that will offer grants to local law enforcement agencies to incentivize them to join the federal 287(g) program, despite the program's troubled history in Nashville. (3/7)
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The legislature also passed six other bills pushed by Lee in the four-day session, including a contentious immigration enforcement bill that, among other things, creates a Class E felony charge for local elected officials who support sanctuary city policies.(2/7)
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Tomorrow morning, 9:30 a.m.
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Gardenhire and the six democratic senators voted against the bill, but it just passed the Senate