Tennessee Education Policy

Tennessee's statewide voucher initiative for the 2025-26 school year authorizes up to 20,000 education vouchers of about $7,300 each.

Tennessee's voucher law includes a 'hold harmless' provision that provides additional state funding to school districts that experience student disenrollment to private schools through the voucher program.

Under Tennessee's 2025–26 voucher initiative, 10,000 vouchers are reserved for specified categories of students (such as lower-income or disabled students) and 10,000 vouchers are available to any student entitled to attend a public school, including students already enrolled in private schools, including religious schools.

Tennessee law permits private schools that accept vouchers to opt out of administering the full Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program and instead administer a nationally normed standardized test.