Student-centered approach will help the most disadvantaged Tennessee children | Opinion

Tennessee has a unique and immediate opportunity to positively impact the lives of students, our future workforce, and the economic growth of our state, if we move quickly and carefully to adopt a bold new way to fund our public schools.

At least 27% of Tennessee’s tax dollars are spent on K-12 education every year, more than $5.6 billion in the current fiscal year. Tennesseans rightly want to be able to understand how these many billions of dollars are spent each and every year.

For the last thirty years, schools have been funded through a complex formula called the Basic Education Program (the BEP), which determines the amount of state taxpayer dollars that flow into each local school district.

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