August 20, 2015      11:38 AM
Linn departs as president of Texans for Education Reform
Takes on new job but will join board in September
Julie Linn will
leave the high-profile Texans for Education Reform to take
a job with the expanding Great Hearts Texas charter school
network.
Great Hearts joins the list of charter providers, often from
out of state, that have
launched a wide-ranging rollout of charter school campuses in Texas, often
supported by San Antonio-based Choose
to Succeed. Critics saw Great Hearts as exclusive,
and the State Board of Education chose to
veto an application last year.
Great Hearts is in the exclusive position of being the one
charter application in which Commissioner Michael
Williams clashed with the SBOE after charter approvals were moved to the
commissioner’s office. When SBOE disagreed with Williams’ recommendation to
grant a second charter to Great Hearts – and more expansion money – the charter
provider used a charter amendment to expand.
By Kimberly Reeves
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