Senate Finance committee approves state charter schools commission

By , Daily Memphian Updated: April 17, 2019 9:35 AM CT | Published: April 16, 2019 11:47 AM CT

The Senate Finance, Ways & Means Committee approved legislation Tuesday setting up a charter school commission with authority to overrule local school boards, even though it could cost nearly $1 million next year and continue to tap the state budget.

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Sam Stockard is a Nashville-based reporter with more than 30 years of journalism experience as a writer, editor and columnist covering the state Legislature and Tennessee politics for The Daily Memphian.


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