Charter School Task Force Report 2010
March 2010
Authors: Erin Do and Phil Doss
In 2008, the Tennessee General Assembly passed Public Chapter 1133 directing the Comptroller’s Office of Education Accountability (OEA), in consultation with the Tennessee Department of Education (DOE) and the State Board of Education (SBOE), to appoint a task force to study and evaluate Tennessee’s charter school law. Task force members identified the following issues: student enrollment, funding, special education and Section 504 students, facilities, transportation, financial relationship to teachers, conversion of schools to charter status, application process, renewal process, and charter school boards (training; relationship to LEA boards).