Beacon Center Provides Legislature with 51 Ideas for a Prosperous Tennessee Pamphlet offers a free market idea for each remaining legislative day of the General Assembly NASHVILLE – The Beacon Center of Tennessee, founded as the Tennessee Center for Policy Research, today made available in electronic...

Justin Owen, president & CEO of the Beacon Center, praises Farragut for its low taxes, strong education results, and job and population growth, leading it to the top of the Center’s 2011 Business-Friendly Cities rankings. This article originally appeared in Sunday’s Knoxville News Sentinel.   by...

July 6, 2011 The Heartland Institute’s “School Reform News” notes the Tennessee Center for Policy Research’s involvement in the effort to provide opportunity scholarships to low-income Tennessee children. “Studies of voucher programs show that they save local school systems...

The Heartland Institute’s School Reform News talks with Ryan Turbeville, policy & outreach coordinator for the Tennessee Center for Policy Research, about recent education reforms adopted in Tennessee. Among them, linking teacher pay to evaluation results and ending teachers’ union collective...

This morning, the House Finance Subcommittee voted 7-6 to pass HB130, the bill to limit collective bargaining by teachers’ unions. Speaker Beth Harwell used her prerogative to cast the tie-breaking vote, keeping the measure alive. Tennessee Center for Policy Research president Justin Owen issued...

The Commercial Appeal highlights how the Tennessee Center for Policy Research and other groups laid the groundwork for the current efforts to terminate collective-bargaining for teachers, a tool the Tennessee Education Association has used to wield tremendous power in the state legislature and thwart...

Dr. Matthew Ladner, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Educational Choice, highlights some amazing data from a new study co-published by the Tennessee Center for Policy Research. This article originally appeared in the Tennessean. by Dr. Matthew Lander A vast majority of Tennesseans believe their...

The Memphis Commercial Appeal notes that the Tennessee Center for Policy Research supports a ban on collective bargaining by teachers’ unions, a reform that will allow teachers to directly negotiate their salary and benefits without having to pay a middle man to handle it for them. Read the full...

NASHVILLE, TN – Tennessee K-12 education has experienced a “lost decade”, while by comparison, a decade of revolutionary reforms has led to extraordinary K-12 achievement gains in Florida, according to a new study released today by the Indianapolis-based Foundation for Educational Choice and the...