Join host Tiffany Boyd and guest Amy Frogge as they delve into the charter school scam and school choice. Charter schools are the first leg of school choice and their goal is to privatize education while taxpayers foot the bill and the students suffer the consequences. Listen as Amy shares her experiences on the school board, data, and what she saw first hand. Charters, vouchers, ESAs and tax credits are all part of the scam they are pedaling under the fake narrative of “school choice.” Amy is a powerhouse of information. Show airs Saturday, September 28 at 4am,11am and 4pm CT and Sunday, September 29 at 7:30am and 7pm CT. Listen on WKOM 101.7FM or stream here: c13.radioboss.fm:18022/web?_… #education #national #radio #radioshow #radiohost #parents #utah #homeschool #schoolchoice #Legislation #rights #schools #charters #family #scam #Legislature #representatives #Politics #Tennessee #Metro #nashville

And the Charter School Scam continues in Tn as this bill passed: “This bill is giving charter operators the ability to buy any decommissioned public school building. They get first shot. It won’t go to a local non-profit that works with the schools,” said Johnson. “Then, also in the bill, if they do purchase this building with problems, the LEA is on the hook for fixing that building up to standard, but the building is still owned by the charter operator.” “We know that a lot of charter schools are gone after three years. Guess who owns that building. The county that restored it and kept it up? No, absolutely not, the charter operator.” McKenzie gave the local example of Fair Garden Early Learning Center. “Fair Garden, the school where I went to elementary school,” he noted, “is a K-3, K-4 school right now, which means they don’t use the second floor. Great school, doing great. The second floor is not used because they have babies [child care] there, but it’s utilized. That [public] school would be considered underutilized by their definition; and they [charter operators] could say ‘We want Fair Garden.’ Still unclear if Knox County could say it’s being used.” He further worried that charter operator Knox Prep, owned by a hedge fund venture capitalist, could have first choice to grab it. Both he and Johnson worry that statewide this whole charade is a property-grabbing scheme for real estate. Even if Fair Garden survives the question of floors and annexes, a no longer used school in your community could end up being repaired at your taxpayer expense, acquired and operated by a hedge fund front for three years, and then sold at a large profit to the charter school operator.”tennesseelookout.com/2024/02…