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Tennessee Public Charter School Commission
April 3, 2023
Tennessee Public Charter schools are a free, public option available for students and families in Tennessee. These resources provide information about what public charter schools are, an overview of how they differ from district-run schools, and answers to commonly asked questions.
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History Of Tennessee Public Charter Sector
April 3, 2023
Tennessee Public Charter schools are a free, public option available for students and families in Tennessee. These resources provide information about what public charter schools are, an overview of how they differ from district-run schools, and answers to commonly asked questions.
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Tennessee Charter School Quick Facts
April 3, 2023
In 2023, there were 114 charter schools in Tennessee, serving approximately 44,000 students — 5 percent of the state’s total student population. The resources below provide key data regarding the enrollment, demographics, and performance of public charter schools in Tennessee.
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2023 State of Education in Tennessee
December 6, 2022
When it comes to taking big steps to improve outcomes for students, Tennessee leads. For more than a decade, the state has taken bold actions and demonstrated great success in improving education. This has led to students having more opportunities for their future, businesses having a more skilled workforce, and, ultimately, more Tennesseans experiencing economic independence statewide.
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Innovative School Models Planning Guide
August 16, 2022
This planning guide is aligned to the Tennessee Department of Education’s Innovative School Models (ISM) guidance document and addresses each of the application components. It also contains links to national examples and resources to further support your thinking around how you will innovate in your middle and high schools. By reflecting on the questions and considerations in this document, your team should be better prepared to submit a strong application.
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Clarksville-Montgomery County School System, Case Study
August 16, 2022
The Clarksville-Montgomery County School System (CMCSS) started an Early Technical College (ETC) at the Clarksville campus of TCAT-Dickson four years ago. At the time, the TCAT campus was primarily serving adult learners and its facilities were underutilized during a large portion of the day. The ETC provides students with personalized, hands-on learning opportunities that can lead to the attainment of both college credit and a high school diploma, technical and professional skill development, and industry certifications.
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Hamilton County Schools, Case Study
August 16, 2022
In partnership with Chattanooga State Community College, Hamilton County Schools (HCS) began developing a microcollege last school year as part of their effort to ensure equitable learning opportunities for all students. Previously, the district’s equity audits revealed that students’ access to early postsecondary opportunities (EPSOs) varied greatly across high schools.
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Bristol Tennessee City Schools, Case Study
August 16, 2022
For years, Bristol Tennessee City Schools (BTCS) had been considering how it could adjust the support it was providing to the approximately 10 percent of its high school sophomores, juniors, and seniors who persistently struggle to succeed academically, attend school consistently, and, ultimately, graduate on time.
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Alcoa City Schools, Case Study
August 16, 2022
Alcoa City Schools set a goal of continuing to increase their Ready Graduate rate from 78 percent to 80 percent and began to consider how they could use the High School Innovation Grant to make progress in this area. They looked at their data to ask where they had weak spots in their subgroups around their Career and Technical Education (CTE) pathways and found there was a gap in health sciences.
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Jackson-Madison County School System, Case Study
August 16, 2022
Jackson-Madison County School System (JMCSS) envisioned a secondary school landscape in their district where each of its seven high schools and the district Workforce Development Center would house at least one of twelve Innovation Impact Institutes focused on a different high-demand occupation that any student in the district could access as they identify career fields of interest to them.
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Tennessee Education Primer
June 9, 2022
Tennesseans began taking bold steps to transform public education to better prepare students for success in 2007. Tennessee must maintain that commitment to innovation and continue to put student needs first in order to prepare every student for success from the day they start school to the day they start a career.
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2022 State of Education in Tennessee
December 6, 2021
Through 2020 and 2021, Tennessee students, families, and educators have faced a public health crisis that has impacted our education system from top to bottom. Educators have provided instruction to students in person, in a hybrid format, and virtually – with limited resources and training at their disposal when the pandemic began. Administrators have faced staffing and scheduling challenges as the coronavirus pandemic spread statewide, requiring many students and educators to quarantine to recover from or to reduce transmission of the disease and miss valuable classroom time as a result. Whether they are in K-12 or postsecondary settings, students have experienced a dramatic shift in their daily lives.
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