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A group of parents and progressive advocacy groups have filed a complaint against Tennessee over a recently passed universal school voucher law, claiming that it violates the state's constitution.

Filed last week in the Chancery Court for Davidson County, Twentieth Judicial District, the lawsuit alleges that a new voucher law “is incompatible with its constitutional duty to provide an adequate education to all the state’s children through a single system of free public schools.”

In February, Republican Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed the Universal Voucher Law, which created an education program making nearly all school-age students eligible for a $7,295 voucher.

"I learned a long time ago that education changes the trajectory of a child's life forever," Lee said back in Feb

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