NASHVILLE, Tenn. — An Arizona-based charter school company says it will not try to place schools in Tennessee for now.
The statement came from Great Hearts Academies on Wednesday after the Metro Nashville school board denied the company's application for a third time.
Tennessee Charter School Association Executive Director Matt Throckmorton told The Tennessean (http://tnne.ws/Q4UANe ) that every charter application shouldn't be what he called "a brand-new political discussion."
School board members said they were concerned that a Great Hearts Academy would draw from affluent white families, rather than bringing in students from other parts of the city to create a more diverse student body.
Great Hearts said might reapply if the approval process is revamped.
Juggernaut8000 posted at 12:09 pm on Thu, Sep 13, 2012.
Great Hearts? LOL have you dealt with any of the scr otbag kids who attend these 'Charter Schools'? They should be drowned immediately.
soricobob posted at 4:42 am on Fri, Sep 14, 2012.
Great Hearts Academy, like many other Charter Schools, have attempted to cater to the scared, pseudo-intellectual, status-seeking white constituents, who think that being educated with a diverse population is a negative thing for their darlings. These schools fail to see that Arizona is one of the few states which will allow them to open at will, otherwise places like Great Hearts, and "Traditional" schools would not exist.