Metro Nashville Public Schools Headquarters — District Facing Possible State Takeover
A Tennessee state representative is publicly pushing the idea that Metro Nashville Public Schools could be the state’s next target for a takeover, following the model just applied to Memphis. Rep. Scott Cepicky, a Republican from Culleoka, says he met privately with MNPS Superintendent Dr. Adrienne Battle and her vice chairman to discuss student performance, and he wants House Speaker Cameron Sexton to order a forensic audit of the district as a first step.
Cepicky made the comments on SuperTalk 99.7 WTN, according to WKRN News 2, which reported his remarks. He said the private meeting with Battle focused mostly on the possibility of a state takeover of MNPS, and he singled out the McGavock, Antioch, and Pearl-Cohn school clusters as underperforming. Those three clusters are among the 12 geographic high school attendance areas that make up Metro Nashville Public Schools, according to the district’s own cluster framework…