TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Sep 26, 2022

The Tennessee Attorney General’s office asked a Nashville court last week to throw out Shelby and Davidson counties’ challenge to the private school voucher law, the Daily Memphian reports. State lawyers argued before the Davidson County Chancery Court on Sept. 19 and in a Sept. 21 court filing that the counties do not have legal standing to challenge the Education Savings Account law because they cannot prove the law would harm the school systems or violate students’ right to a free public education. “No fundamental right is implicated by the ESA Pilot Program,” said newly installed Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti.