What happens when legislators stand up for their local public schools and also support accountability in charter schools?

They get attacked as tools of “Hillary Clinton’s NEA.”

That’s exactly what happened when two Republican lawmakers opposed Governor Bill Lee’s proposal to allow charter schools to circumvent local school boards.

Supposedly non-partisan group Tennesseans for Student Success immediately went on the attack against Mark Cochran and Chris Hurt.

Apparently, being for student success also means being ok with outright lies and deliberate deception in order to advance an agenda detrimental to the actual success of our state’s public schools.

Here are those ads:

For more on education policy and politics in Tennessee, follow @TNEdReport