After a decade of building testing accountability, Tennessee appears ready to ease up with vouchers

Chalkbeat: Tennessee has fought hard to build testing-based accountability into its public school system. So educators quickly took note when Gov. Bill Lee eased off of that approach with his signature education proposal to give taxpayer money to some families to spend on private education services.

Students receiving education savings accounts — a newer kind of voucher now under consideration by the Tennessee General Assembly — would have to take half as many tests as their counterparts in public schools.

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