KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — During its meeting Thursday, the Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations recommended that state education officials start tracking the residency of students enrolled in public virtual schools.

The group said this would fix a "distortion" in the state's K-12 funding formula for public virtual schools. As an example, a student living in Knox County could enroll at a virtual school based in Cocke County. The student would be counted in Cocke County's student count and in turn would artificially inflate funding from the state for the county.

State democratic Senator said the current system "incentivizes districts and for-profit companies to sort of game school finance."

Union County has the longest track record partnering with for-profit virtual schoo

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