Pass the Bill and Figure it out Later?!

Please watch this meeting of the Tennessee House Education Subcommittee on Curriculum, Testing, and Innovation regarding creating a new commission (yes, bigger government) to authorize charter schools, after local school districts vote not to authorize them.  (Skip forward to 42:34 – HB 0940)

If the video does not play, you can also access it here.

Please contact ALL members of the Tennessee House Education Committee (the next stop for the bill, HB0940) and tell them that decisions regarding LOCAL schools should be left to your LOCAL boards of education.

Members of the House Education Committee and their contact information can be found here.

You can find additional information on this bill from Andy Spears, here.

and from The Tennessean and Andy Sher, here.