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.

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.