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May 10, 2012: Nashville’s LEAD Public Schools, a Metro charter organization, is set to receive $3.25 million from the Charter School Growth Fund-Tennessee to support LEAD’s planned growth and future expansion in Davidson County. “This generous investment will help fulfill our promise to our first group of students and meet the demand from parents in Nashville’s most underserved communities to get a rigorous, college-preparatory education for their children,” LEAD Public Schools founder Jeremy Kane said. LEAD Public Schools currently manages three cha...

May 9, 2012: U.S. News & World Report has released its annual ranking of the top public high schools in the nation. Coming in at No. 49 nationally and No. 1 in Tennessee was Nashville's Hume-Fogg Academic Magnet High School. Ranked No. 80 nationally was Martin Luther King Academic Magne...

May 9, 2012: Though scores of parents are celebrating a proposed Metro charter operator as much-needed option for a school system that historically loses students to private schools, a competing faction argues that it would threaten racial diversity within the system. Great Hearts Academies, an Arizona-based charter organization that has proposed a network of five publicly-financed, privately-led schools in Nashville, took center stage at Tuesday’s school board meeting, with more than 60 parents having a say in the debate before the board casts a final vote on 11 charter applicants b...

May 9, 2012: Officials with Arizona-based Great Hearts Academies charter school chain say they never have had resistance trying to star...

May 9, 2012: http://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/national-rankings/charter-school-rankings - CHECK THESE RANKINGS! Charter schools are public schools that operate under charters and have been released from some of the regulations governing traditional public schools. Charter schools tend to have limited enrollment and usually accept students through an application process. The followin...

May 7, 2012: Mayor Karl Dean (Michael W. Bunch/SouthComm) Karl Dean knows he has some sales work to do. Nashville, like many cash-strapped cities across the country, has put off any number of decisions, plans and projects during the recession. After deferring the city&...