The head of a powerful Tennessee panel recommended overturning 5 of 8 local votes to deny charter school applications, including one tied to conservative Hillsdale College.
MSCS officials recommended that the board deny applications by five schools in Tennessee’s turnaround district, plus bids from four new schools. The board approved two schools.
If the MSCS board denies the schools’ charter applications, the district could operate them later as traditional schools. But if that doesn’t happen, the schools would close.
Among the applicants is a school led by former top MSCS official John Barker and several existing schools under the state’s Achievement School District.
No successor has been named for the position, despite a search planning to end in 2021. No schools will be taken over this fall, but ASD 2.0 is in the works.