The Tennessee Nonprofit Behind a Massive School Privatization Push
With deep connections to a former U.S. Senator
Phil Williams of Nashville’s NewsChannel5 is one reporter who is not afraid of a tough story.
This time, he’s following the path of a nonprofit group that raises millions of dollars a year and is associated with former U.S. Senator Bill Frist.
The group: Tennessee SCORE — SCORE stands for Statewide Collaborative for Reforming Education.
Williams is on the story of how SCORE is aggressively promoting the expansion of charter schools as the panacea for the state’s education woes.
Never mind that SCORE has been driving the state’s education agenda for more than a decade.
Williams notes that education advocates are warning about SCORE’s plan — supported by Gov. Bill Lee — to bring at least 50 new charter schools to the state in the next 5 years.
And not just in Nashville and Memphis, where charters are already an alarming part of the landscape.
