{"id":1717,"date":"2011-07-23T11:19:20","date_gmt":"2011-07-23T15:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/lawsuit-against-school-charter-surrender.html"},"modified":"2011-07-23T11:19:20","modified_gmt":"2011-07-23T15:19:20","slug":"lawsuit-against-school-charter-surrender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/lawsuit-against-school-charter-surrender.html","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuit against school charter surrender"},"content":{"rendered":"In Tennessee, supporters of education decided to fight a bogus consolidation attempt.\n<p>\nLawrence Buser and Sherri Drake Silence wrote for the Memphis Commercial Appeal 12 February 2011,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/news\/2011\/feb\/12\/showdown-over-schools-scs-files-suit-over\/?partner=RSS\">\nShelby County Schools files suit over Memphis charter surrender:\nComplaint says city shirking duty to kids; rapid takeover &#8216;impossible&#8217;<\/a>\n<blockquote>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/news\/2011\/feb\/12\/showdown-over-schools-scs-files-suit-over\/?partner=RSS\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/web.commercialappeal.com\/datacenter\/inlines\/schoolshowdown.jpg\"><\/a>\nShelby County school leaders have taken their fight against consolidation\nto the courts, filing a federal lawsuit Friday alleging that the city\nschool board&#8217;s &#8220;irrational&#8221; charter surrender deprives Memphis students\nof their constitutional rights.\n<p>\nIn the lawsuit, suburban district leaders also blast the city of Memphis\nand the Memphis City Council for supporting &#8220;the (MCS) board&#8217;s unplanned\nand un-thoughtful effort to abandon its obligations to the children\nof Memphis.&#8221;\n<\/blockquote>\nHm, I wonder if there would be\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/07\/the-qualified-voters-voting-thereon-in-each-separate-school-system-proposed-to-be-consolidated-ga-constitution.html\">legal grounds for this<\/a> around here?\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Tennessee, supporters of education decided to fight a bogus consolidation attempt. Lawrence Buser and Sherri Drake Silence wrote for the Memphis Commercial Appeal 12 February 2011, Shelby County Schools files suit over Memphis charter surrender: Complaint says city shirking duty to kids; rapid takeover &#8216;impossible&#8217; Shelby County school leaders have taken their fight against [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[97,40,1376,15,3305,2,20],"tags":[4067,4036,2153,1636,3404,668,8705,2475,4065,4066,4068,1837,8789],"class_list":["post-1717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-community","category-cuee","category-education","category-fvcs","category-government","category-law","tag-abandon","tag-charter","tag-children","tag-consolidation","tag-constitution","tag-court","tag-education","tag-lawsuit","tag-memphis","tag-shelby-county","tag-shirk","tag-students","tag-tennessee"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-rH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}