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The Tennessee Senate has approved legislation expanding the state's education voucher program into Hamilton County, which would allow low-income families to use public tax dollars to send their children to private schools willing to accept the annual $8,100 vouchers.
Roy Exum: Educational Agony Roy Exum This is the fourth year that Tiffany France has sent her son – let’s call him Joe – to Augusta Fells High School in urban Baltimore, where Joe ranks in the top half of the senior class. He’s No. 52 in a class of 120. So, imagine Tiffany’s horror when she learned that, no, he will not be graduating this spring. Nor in any spring in the foreseeable future. In a scene being played out in public schools all over the nation, just now Tiffany has been told Joe has failed 22 of 25 classes and has a 0.13 grade-point average. Oh, and he has either been ta...
Roy Exum: "White Allyship" Roy Exum The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, a-swirl in social justice reform yet sorely lacking in common sense, may be on the brink of alienating itself from the very community that supports it. Today the university will host a lecture and celebration focusing on ‘White Allies and Accountability’ when it is my view that such a distasteful folly will reversely reverberate within the campus and deeply erode the bearing Chancellor Steven R. Angle holds in our community. It’s pure garbage and has no place or value in our lives. To promote such vitriol i...