{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Tennessee Conservative","title":"Rep. Todd Warner Speaks on School Vouchers, The Upcoming Special Session & The Tennessee Conservative’s Press Corps Rejection","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":298,"description":"Rep. Todd Warner Speaks on School Vouchers, Upcoming Special Session & The Tennessee Conservative’s Press Corps Rejection\n\nThe Tennessee Conservative [By Adelia Kirchner] –\nThis week Rep. Todd Warner sat down with The Tennessee Conservative to discuss school vouchers, the upcoming special session called by Gov. Bill Lee (R-TN), The Tennessee Conservative’s Press Corps rejection, and his removal from two House education committees.\nSchool Vouchers and Gov. Lee’s Special Session\n\nThe current school voucher legislation being considered by Tennessee lawmakers continues to drum up quite the controversy with its estimated cost being $268,210,000 for just the first year.\nIn subsequent years that cost is expected to increase as the number of scholarships increases.\nThe bill does not focus solely on school vouchers, but also does a number of “beneficial” things for public schools and issues a $2,000 bonus for every public school teacher in the State of Tennessee, regardless of their performance. \nAccording to Rep. Warner, passing this school voucher bill would “absolutely not” be a fiscally responsible move on behalf of the state legislature.\n“That is a Washington-style port bill brought to the conservative doorstep of Tennessee,” he told The Tennessee Conservative. “That bill should be split into two parts. The part that funds public education, the teacher bonuses, and the part that funds vouchers, and vote them up, you know, straight up or down, each bill, not lump them together. \n“It's almost like you're trying to bribe teachers to get them not to speak out against vouchers, and it's not normally the way we do things up here,” he continued.\nThe conservative lawmaker out of Chapel Hill also had quite a bit to say regarding Gov. Lee’s call for a special legislative session.\nOn Wednesday, the governor announced his call for a special session to pass the school vouchers bill or the Education Freedom Act, introduce a disaster relief package for East Tennesseans affected by...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/fjqRKyqDOhVD-OMKhemqGv3PI-T95gkBVvKvIJOSUfw/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzI0MjAzLzE3MDMy/NTg0NzAtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}