POLITICSTENNESSEE LOOKOUT
Tennessee increases private-school voucher vendor contract by $356M
Tennessee lawmakers approved a $356 million increase for Student First Technologies, LLC, raising its contract to nearly $637 million over five years to administer private-school voucher programs. The expansion follows a 15,000-student increase in the Education Freedom Scholarship program and comes despite the vendor's past issues in Arkansas and West Virginia.
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