The Memphis-Shelby County School Board rejected six public charter school applications during its meeting on Tuesday, but if you blinked, you might have missed it.
The district voted down applications for Blueprint College and Career Prep, Empowerment Academy, Memphis Elites STEAM Academy, Opportunity Youth Academy, and Urban Dove Team Charter Schools Memphis I and II, on the consent calendar.
That means, instead of engaging in discussion about the proposed schools and their individual merits, the board rolled a single recommendation to deny all four applications into one vote…