Playing hardball over a Tennessee charter school
Kevin Huffman (Erik Schelzig/AP)
Well, they went ahead and did it. Tennessee education officials actually lived up to their petulant threat to withhold $3.4 million from Nashville public schools as punishment for refusing to allow a controversial charter school to open.
The state money that should have gone to Nashville for October didn’t show up this week as it would have had Nashville officials caved to state Education Commissioner Kevin Huffman and other officials and approved an application from Great Hearts Academies, the Tennesseannewspaper reported. Since they had good reasons for denying the application in the first place, they decided to stick to their original decision.
Great Hearts, which runs 12 charter schools in Arizona, wanted to open a school in a
