KIPP, Great Hearts not among charter schools approved [1]
The Metro school board on Tuesday voted to approve two charter school applications for Antioch and North Nashville — which next fall will lift the city's count to 15 — but denied applications from two well-known organizations, Nashville's KIPP Academy and Arizona-based Great Hearts Academies. Joey Garrison has more on why the board did what it did [2] and which one of the two groups immediately said it would appeal.
- Education [3]
- Great Hearts Academies [4]
- KIPP Academy [5]
- Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools [6]
- Randy Dowell [7]
- Charter schools [8]
- Public education [9]