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Charter Commission emergency rule creates direct replication pathway; committee recommends approval
Summary
The Tennessee Public Charter School Commission presented an emergency rule governing replication applications from existing charter sponsors; committee members sought clarity on appeal rights and authorizer rubrics and the committee recommended the rule positively.
The Tennessee Public Charter School Commission asked the joint Government Operations Committee on Oct. 15 to approve an emergency rule that governs applications by charter school sponsors seeking to replicate an existing school within the same district.
Tess Stovall, executive director of the Tennessee Public Charter School Commission, explained the rule implements Public Chapter 275 (2025), which created an option for sponsors that have operated a charter school for at least one year to apply either to their local board of education or directly to the Charter Commission to replicate a school with the same academic focus. “One of those…
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