Leaders of a charter school network launched by Michigan-based Hillsdale College are asking a Tennessee commission to overturn local denials of three applications.
Should a controversial Michigan college be allowed to open a taxpayer-funded school in Rutherford County? The public had a chance to weigh in on that question Wednesday in Murfreesboro.
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) A Tennessee panel has kicked off hearings over whether to let charter schools linked to Hillsdale College open despite rejections from local school boards, a process unfolding in the wake of controversial comments about teachers by Hillsdale's president.