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Jean Myers, of Sumner County PSS, is interviewed about HB793. Listen to Jean's interview on The Loyal Opposition podcast.

Meghan Gilbert, the Hamilton County co-lead for the advocacy group Public School Strong, said the amount of public funding going to students attending private schools shows where the state's priorities are. "With our public schools being a public good, we want to ensure that they remain funded and supported," she said by phone. "It is just unfortunate to see that our priorities are putting that money into these private school programs that are not showing they're performing and are not having...

“Local elected officials’ authority is being threatened by state preemption,” cautioned Shelby White, alerting Tennessee residents to a campaign by lobbyists, corporations, and their legislative partners to abolish the 1989 Jackson Law which gives local residents the final say on whether a proposed landfill is allowed to locate in their community. Read the full article from the Sewanee Mountain Messenger.