Turning Choices Into Change

Our mission is to support and cultivate high performing charter schools and advocate for autonomy, accountability, and choice across public education in Tennessee.

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Raising the Bar of Excellence

We are raising the bar of excellence and ensuring all children in Tennessee have access to high-quality education.

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Impactful Training and Certification Opportunities

Designed to support current charter administrators and educators in achieving and sustaining achievement and success

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Autonomy, innovation and high-quality choices

Help us advocate and support high-quality charter schools!

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Schools

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TCSC Opens Search for Next CEO

The Tennessee Charter School Center seeks a credible, politically savvy, charter school advocate to serve as Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”). The CEO will lead and grow a small team of professionals to support charter schools in the state and engage with a wide array of stakeholders to advance the priorities of TCSC.

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Why

Charter

Schools
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We believe the opportunity to educate students is a privilege and a public trust. In exchange for that privilege and the autonomy they are afforded, public charter schools are held highly accountable.

We are raising the bar of excellence and ensuring all children in Tennessee have access to high-quality education!

Together we're driving change in public education!

About

TCSC's

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The Tennessee Charter School Center (TCSC) is the state’s primary charter school support organization, or CSO. A non-profit organization, TCSC engages in policy, advocacy, and school support work to ensure that Tennessee’s public charter schools have an equitable environment to operate in and have the resources they need to ensure they are offering a high quality public education to all of their students. The team at TCSC provides:

  • Policy Expertise
  • Local and Statewide Advocacy
  • Charter School Application, Renewal, and Appeal Support
  • World Class Facilities Support
  • Governing Board Training
  • Professional Development
  • Single Site Collaboration

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