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Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Schools Matter: McIntyre's Plan to Charterize Knoxville Schools

Schools Matter: McIntyre's Plan to Charterize Knoxville Schools:


McIntyre's Plan to Charterize Knoxville Schools

It was 2008 when Pilot Oil magnate Bill Haslam and the Chamber of Commerce boys in Knoxville put their school board posse onto a jet to head up to Boston to fetch down a fresh Broad-trained graduate to begin Knox County's transition to corporatized schools.

The latest stealth attack by corporate stooge, Supt. Jim McIntyre, comes in the form a brazen attempt to put himself in charge of deciding which public schools in Knoxville will be converted into corporate welfare charter schools.  From the RFP, p. 4:

Conversion of existing schools to charters may be initiated through reorganization decisions made