It seems Rocketship Nashville has been grounded. Or, at least it won’t be flying as big a fleet come next school year.
The Tennessean reports:
One of Nashville’s three Achievement School District schools will close at the end of the semester due to low enrollment, just months after it opened.
Rocketship Nashville officials said Wednesday they will shutter Partners Community Prep, which serves grades K-2 and is overseen by the state-run district.
Rocketship has also repeatedly attempted to expand operations in Nashville and been rejected by both the local school board and the State Board of Education.
Then there’s the Achievement School District forcing districts to hand over schools to charters, as in the case of Neely’s Bend Middle School. Before they handed a beloved community school over to a charter network, the ASD set up an epic battle to see which school would survive. Oh, and the ASD has a track record of being not-so-successful. Oh, and also not very truthful.
All this disruption means that fifty students will be starting at a new school… again. Rocketship leaders say the process was a learning experience for them. Wonder what kind of experience it has been for the students?
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