Board refuses last remaining ASD schools’ applications to become charters

By , Daily Memphian Updated: July 29, 2025 11:19 PM CT | Published: July 29, 2025 11:16 PM CT

MSCS rejected requests for Kirby Middle and Hillcrest High to become district charter schools once their ASD terms end. The denials could carry consequences, under a new state law.

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Memphis-Shelby County Schools KIPP Memphis Achievement School District Tennessee Public Charter School Commission
Laura Testino

Laura Testino

Laura Testino is an enterprise reporter on The Daily Memphian’s metro team who writes most often about how education policies shape the lives of children and families. She regularly contributes to coverage of breaking news events and actions of the Tennessee General Assembly. Testino’s journalism career in Memphis began six years ago at The Commercial Appeal, where she began chronicling learning disruptions associated with the pandemic, and continued with Chalkbeat, where she dug into education administration in Memphis. Her reporting has appeared in The New York Times, The Times-Picayune, The Tuscaloosa News and USA Today.


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