State lawmakers gave the go-ahead for charter schools to operate in Tennessee until 2015. This year’s new law also takes first steps to expand access to a wider range of students.
While charter school advocates did not get everything they hoped for, the new law extends the “sunset provision” that threatened to close charter schools in 2008. Expanded eligibility requirements also open up some slots in K-3 classrooms to low-income students in good academic standing. Under prior law, charter schools were only available to failing students or students attending failing schools.
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