TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Dec 13, 2021

Tennessee Rep. Bruce Griffey, R-Paris, has filed legislation just ahead of next year’s legislative session that would eliminate K-12 education funding for undocumented immigrants, WATE reports. The legislation would challenge a 1982 landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Plyler v. Doe, which held that students cannot be denied a free public education due to their immigration status. Griffey says his proposal is not anti-immigrant but an effort to return power over funding decisions to the states.