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Leaders in Washington and in the state are pushing to expand charter schools. The schools are touted as laboratories of innovation with the potential to dramatically change public education.
Tennessee’s charter schools are public schools-of a sort. Charters are run by non-profit organizations, using government money. And as WPLN’s Nina Cardona learned on a visit to Smithson-Craighead Elementary in Nashville, they’re given the flexibility to make their own choices and stiff consequences if those decisions don’t work out.
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