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Happy Friday (finally)! It’s Bri Hatch from Chalkbeat Tennessee.

A year-long effort to track and report immigrant students inside Tennessee public schools hit the rocks last week, at least temporarily. But House Republicans quietly slipped similar language into an advancing proposal to expand the state’s voucher program, tying the public school hold harmless provision that maintains an enrollment funding floor to immigrant student tracking.

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A preliminary audit report of Memphis-Shelby County Schools revealed over $1 million in spending classified as waste or abuse and a lack of effective internal district systems.

House Republicans tie immigrant student tracking to Tennessee voucher expansion bill

Public schools would have to verify student immigration status to keep funding under an amendment to a voucher expansion bill.

Early Memphis schools audit findings ‘consistent with waste or abuse’

Tennessee Republicans now say they will move forward with a state takeover effort that could seize major controls of the Memphis district from the elected school board.