The Memphis-Shelby County Schools board on Tuesday approved just one of four charter school applications for the 2023-24 school year.

The Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) Board of Education provided school choice supporters with a mixed bag at Monday afternoon's specially called meeting.

With less than three weeks to go before students return to classrooms, Memphis-Shelby County Schools has 220 unfilled teaching positions.

Tennessee currently has no charter schools operating outside the big four cities of Nashville, Memphis, Knoxville, and Chattanooga. Rutherford County’s School Board ensured that won’t be the case next year with a historic decision for school choice at its July 18 meeting.

The Metro Nashville Public Schools Board of Education sent another sign Tuesday night that public charter schools will not have an easy time making their case in Music City.

Nearly 17% of Memphis students in grades 3-12 performed at or above grade-level expectations in math and English on state standardized tests in 2022 — a sign that the district has recovered some ground from the steep academic declines caused by the pandemic.

The Memphis-Shelby County Schools board on Tuesday agreed to sell the former Brookmeade Elementary School building, located at 3777 Edenburg Drive, to the charter school for $725,000.

Hundreds of Nashville public school children won’t have to endure the uncertainty of switching middle schools next month after all. At a specially called June meeting, the Tennessee Public Charter School Commission voted against Metro Nashville Public School Board’s denial of a request by Knowledge Academies to combine its three schools into one.