A controversial bill allowing Tennessee public schools to charge tuition for immigrant children has been revived in an amended form to instead require K12 districts to gather student immigration status data and report it to the states education department.
As amended, the bill (HB073/SB0836) by House Majority Leader William Lamberth, a Portland Republican, would no longer allow public schools to collect tuition from students without legal status, nor give the option of disenrolling children whose families could not pay.
Instead, what remains of the original bill that stalled last year on concerns it could jeopardize more than $1.1 billion in federal education funding is a provision requiring schools to collect and report student immigration status, in aggregate and minus identifying information, to the state. Sen. Bo Watson, a Hixson Republican, is the bills co-sponsor.
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