The head of a powerful Tennessee commission is recommending the state overturn five of eight local school board decisions denying charter school applications, including two in Memphis and one from a group linked with conservative Hillsdale College.
American Classical Academy has applied to start schools in other LEAs like Clarksville-Montgomery and Robertson, but so far, only Rutherford County has approved it after citing the county's growth.
American Classical Education, a Hillsdale College-affiliated charter school chain, continued its critique of the school systems in Madison and Maury counties in its appeal to the Tennessee Public Charter School Commission.
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