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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