State ASD Charter Schools Unveiled
Memphis City Schools officials formally turned over the school buildings Tuesday, June 5, that will become part of the state-run Achievement School District starting with the new school year in...
View ArticleFive charter groups appeal Metro school board's rejections
Five charter school groups have appealed the Metro school board's prior rejections of their applications to run privately operated, publicly funded charter schools in Nashville. Officials of KIPP...
View ArticleKIPP in charter tug-of-war
The Nashville branch of the prominent KIPP Academy charter school chain has become the battleground for education policymakers to determine how rapidly the taxpayer-funded, privately operated schools...
View ArticleEducation college helps district and charter schools work together in fellows...
When it comes to district schools and charter schools, rarely do the two mix. In the highly politicized environment surrounding education, it is not often that proponents for district schools and...
View ArticleState authorization of charters catches school board off guard
When Tennessee's Achievement School District -- a new governance body that oversees the state's 85 lowest-performing schools -- announced June 4 [1] it had authorized three charter organizations to...
View ArticleRevised Great Hearts' plan adds transportation, avoids diversity concern
In a strongly worded and sometimes confrontational letter [1], officials from Great Hearts Academies have made a concession as they appeal the Metro school board's decision to deny [2] their plan to...
View ArticleSchool board rejects Great Hearts, approves KIPP and Purpose Prep
A heated Metro school board discussion on diversity -- with one member citing a fear of resegregation -- ended with a 7-2 vote Tuesday to deny an amended, but still controversial, charter for Great...
View ArticlePAC asks judge to lay off charters in MNPS rezoning suit
A pro-charter schools political action group filed an amicus brief in the ongoing federal court case Spurlock vs. Fox, et. al. Tuesday -- the same day the Metro school board approved two additional...
View ArticleNorth Nashville to get 2 new charter schools; one is KIPP Academy
KIPP Academy plans to open one new middle school in 2013, even though the prominent charter school received two separate approvals from the Metro school board Tuesday and the state Achievement School...
View ArticleParents Have High Hopes For New Metro Charter School
NASHVILLE, Tenn.- Charter schools are slowly becoming a more popular choice among families with Metro Schools looking for an alternative approach to education.For Art Fuller, the end of summer marks...
View ArticleState will decide Great Hearts Academy appeal next week
Great Hearts Academy's months-long quest to open five new charter schools in Nashville officially entered its final stages on Tuesday.At a special meeting of top state education officials, executives...
View ArticleTennessee commissioner satisfied plan protects teacher pay
Tennessee Education Commissioner Kevin Huffman has reviewed the plan to merge Memphis City Schools and Shelby County Schools and says he is satisfied teacher salary benefits will be protected.The...
View ArticleKnowledge Academies brings charter school choice to Antioch
With its marbled floors and soaring columns, Nashville's newest charter school looks more like an office, but the 140 middle school students who started classes there Wednesday didn't appear overly...
View ArticleNumber of Charter Appeals ‘Problematic’: State Ed Board Chair
Local school boards are rejecting a troubling number of charter school applications, a state education official said, suggesting that more power to approve charters should be shifted to the state.The...
View Article6 Nashville schools fall into state's lowest 5 percent for performance
Six Metro Nashville schools are among the state's lowest 5 percent for performance. The Tennessee Department of Education released its list Monday, basing it on student performance on spring...
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