East Nashville Parents Begin Arduous Task Of Re-Thinking School Zone Feeder...
Metro Schools officials hope to both attract middle class families and help low-income families that tend to move more often by reworking feeder patterns.
View ArticleAs Race To The Top Money Dries Up, Tennessee’s Achievement School District...
The agency charged with turning around Tennessee’s lowest performing schools has to find new funding. The Achievement School District was born in 2010 out of the Race to the Top program. All of that...
View ArticleWill Governor Haslam Make Good On A Promise To Boost Teacher Pay In Tennessee?
Tennessee teachers are starting 2015 curious to know if it will be a second year without a pay raise. So far, state officials haven’t made any more promises.
View ArticleIf There’s A Seatbelt Law For Tennessee School Buses, Who Gets A Ticket?
The Tennessee Highway Patrol has some unanswered questions about a proposed law requiring seat belts on school buses. After a deadly bus collision in Knoxville, legislators immediately began calling...
View ArticleRecord Number Of Nashville Families Trying To Get Into Schools They’re Not...
Decision day comes Friday for 13,300 families in Nashville. That's how many students have applied to attend a school other than the one that's closer to home.
View ArticlePresident Obama Wants Tennessee Promise To Go Nationwide, But What Is It,...
As President Obama rolls out the details of a national free community college proposal, Tennessee’s version has been thrust into the spotlight. We've been covering Tennessee Promise since it launched...
View ArticleGlitches Take Down Nashville’s School Lottery
More than 13,000 families in Nashville are still waiting to hear if they got into the school they wanted for next year. A website announcing results of the school lottery was published Friday and then...
View ArticleNo Harm Done And No Need To Rerun School Lottery, Nashville Officials Say
A bug in Metro Schools' lottery system resulted in a few hundred families getting seats in several different schools instead of just one. But district officials say there was no harm and no need for a...
View ArticleAlexander Expedites NCLB Fix, Identifies Testing As Big Sticking Point
In his first days as chairman of the U.S. Senate’s education committee, Lamar Alexander is following through on a pledge to fix the Bush-era No Child Left Behind law.
View ArticleWill Tennessee Continue Allowing Virtual Schools To Operate Statewide?
This year, Tennessee lawmakers must decide whether or not to stay in the statewide cyber school business. The legislative act that paved the way for the troubled Tennessee Virtual Academy needs to be...
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