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TEA Commissioner Morath approved 8 of 9 new charter applicants that were under consideration:
posted on August 19 - 02:46 PM
- Brillante Academy (McAllen)
- CLEAR Public Charter School (San Marcos)
- *Doral Academy of Texas (Buda)
- Heritage Classical Academy (Houston)
- *Learn4Life (Austin)
- Prelude Preparatory (San Antonio)
- Rocketship Public Schools (Fort Worth)
- Royal Public Schools (San Antonio)
*out-of-state charter chains) (20)
- These 8 applicants now move to the State Board of Education that meets the week of September 8 – 11, 2020 and has the authority to veto these approvals. The State Board meeting is the only opportunity in the charter application process for public testimony.
- In comparison, in 2019 the Commissioner only approved five charter applicants that were sent to the State Board (which approved 4 of 5).
- Three of the approved charter applicants are out-of-state charter chains that will receive millions of Texas taxpayer dollars for their “charter management organizations” in California and Florida.
- Serious questions were raised at the TEA interviews with these charter applicants about the record of charter applicants in other states; governance; curriculum that included insensitive racial references; and the accountability of out-of-state charter organizations that will receive millions of state dollars from Texas.