Stephanie Whitt of Beacon Center, a Nashville-based nonprofit think tank, contends the MNPS is doing this to show "disdain" for educational choices available to Nashville families.
"They have told the schools that they have until July 1st to come up with their own league if they want to start one,” she says, “but that the students will no longer be able to participate starting in the following school year."
Whitt and Beacon believe the punishment is related to a new funding formula approved at the state level.
“This is a punishment,” she tells AFN, “but, sadly, the only person that they're punishing are the students at the charter schools."
