TN Bill Moves Charter School Funds from Districts to the State

Local officials have been dragging their feet on new schools

If the Tennessee legislature approves a statewide authorizer for charter schools, House Speaker Beth Harwell said that charter students' test scores — and the per-student money to educate those children — would flow away from local school districts into the state system.

"Those children's test scores would come out from the local school system and be counted in the state system — not the local," Harwell told TNReport in an interview at her office Thursday. "In addition, the money would (follow the students) as well."