It’s back to school for students across Tennessee, and safety is top of mind after a shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. That has reopened the discussion about school safety, and resource officers.
As students return to classrooms, it’s Tennessee elementary schools that have added the most school resource officers
Metro will reconsider a proposal to host the Republican National Convention, but it might be too late
The idea of the Republican National Convention coming to Nashville is not totally off the table.
Vanderbilt reports a rare cluster of viral infections, likely linked to COVID precautions
Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital has seen an unexplained cluster of viral infections in infants under three months old in what is likely one more example of COVID precautions changing how another virus spreads.
In a new memoir in verse, Alora Young traces the lives of generations of Black women
She’s 19, and the current Youth Poet Laureate of the Southern United States. Her debut book Walking Gentry Home archives her family’s history – and the legacy of slavery in the American South – in the form of a memoir in verse.
Tennessee’s abortion ban has some employers rethinking benefits, and some employees looking to relocate
Lyndsay Kash works at the clothing shop Marine Layer in the 12 South shopping district. When she saw the news that Roe v. Wade was overturned, she was shocked.
Tennessee will create 60 new childcare centers with some of the final COVID stimulus money
The YMCA and the Boys & Girls Club are planning nearly 10,000 new childcare spots across Tennessee with the state’s help. The money is coming from what’s left of COVID stimulus funding.
Hillsdale College’s charter schools appeal to the state to overturn rejections in three Tennessee counties
Three charter school proposals affiliated with Hillsdale College have now appealed their rejections by local Tennessee school boards.
Nashville’s August election is like the playoffs. So, why are so many voters sitting it out?
In Nashville, roughly 2,000 people are sitting out early voting compared to the same day in 2018. Contests for the Democratic governor’s race, judicial seats and four city charter amendments are on the ballot.
A summertime tagalong with Antioch’s Ice Cream Man
Every other Friday for This Is Nashville, Khalil Ekulona hops out of the host chair and into the passenger seat to ride shotgun with one of our fellow Middle Tennesseans. It’s summer, so what better time to take a ride with the ice cream man?
Teachers and advocates scrutinize Tennessee’s new formula for funding public education
The Tennessee Department of Education is still working on a new funding formula to distribute money to public schools and took feedback in person Thursday at a special hearing.
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