Mark White
Family and Personal:
Rep. White is married with one child and two grandsons. He is also a founder and partner of PANDA parts dba Wyrestorm.
Memberships:
He is a member of National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), Collierville Rotary Club, National Federation of Independent Business, National Foundation for Transplants, Germantown Kiwanis Club, and the Memphis Small Business Chamber.
He is also a member of the following Chambers of Commerce: Memphis Regional, Germantown, Southaven, Tunica, and West Memphis.
Councils and Boards:
He is Chair of the House Education Administration & Planning Subcommittee. He serves as Chairman of the Board for Collierville Chamber of Commerce and NFIB Memphis Action Council. He is Appointed Chairman of NFIB Tennessee Leadership Council. He is also a Board Member of Launch TN and is on the Holocaust Commission. Finally, He is Director and Founder of the Global Children’s Educational Foundation.
Mark White (R) has been in the TN House since 2009. He has served as chairman of the very important full Education Committee since 2020 and as vice-chair before that. In that role he had the opportunity to make significant improvements in education for our Tennessee K-12 students, as well as in our colleges and universities. We have seen nothing but decline in achievement scores (28% in reading and math) and behavior patterns while mental health issues have gone up exponentially, along with money thrown at the system.
Chairman White earned a modest vote score of 67%, supporting all six of the bills TLRC opposed, and opposing two of the bills TLRC supported. Those he supported:
- HB0204/SB0136 The Crown Act- protecting ethnic hairstyles in the work place
- HB1201/SB1005 Changes in campaign finance giving advantage to incumbents; limiting freedom of speech
- HB2309/SB2464 Allows professional licenses for illegal immigrants in Tennessee
- HB2609/SB2890 Cincinnati Reds 80% tax-break for Chattanooga farm team
- HB2886/SB2901 Provides $500M for Titans to build new stadium
- HB8002/SB8002 Provides $678,218,300 of taxpayer money for Ford to build an electric vehicle plant in W. TN
The last three bills are corporate welfare which, in all forms, should be opposed. Our state government should not be giving economic advantages to any public or private for-profit entities. Let the free market pick winners and losers.
White also opposed two bills that TLRC championed:
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HB0800/SB1216 Education: No material allowed promoting/normalizing non-traditional sex
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HB2067/SB2189 Would reduce number of votes necessary to keep a minor party on ballot
On most education issues, White caves to the teacher’s unions and the education establishment, despite their abysmal results. Year after year of declining achievement scores and rising dissatisfaction of parents does not bring about the changes necessary. Perhaps it is not just education policy and curriculum that needs changing; perhaps we need a change in leadership.
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Related Bills
Redefines "obscene" to include educational material
Provide taxpayer money to Ford for the construction of an electric vehicle plant
Requires Textbook Commission to provide a list of approved material to GA members
Reduces number of votes necessary to keep a minor party on the ballot
Lengthy campaign finance revisions
Cincinnati Reds tax-break for Chattanooga stadium
Allows professional licenses for illegal aliens
No educational material promoting non-traditional sex
School boards - freedom to speak
Would require Ed. debts and institutions to comply with state and federal laws and constitutions. (GA oversight)
Enshrines the Tennessee Right to Work Law into the Tennessee Constitution.