Archives for June 2008

More than a quarter of Metro School students don’t graduate with a high school diploma. Today, a city task force issued twenty pages of recommendations for identifying and helping potential dropouts. Mayor Karl Dean says work has already begun on enacting several of them.

Nashville-based AmMed Direct says it will lose 6,000 customers July 1 if a new Medicare rule isn’t delayed.

Former Nashville Mayor Bill Purcell has been named the new director of Harvard University’s Institute of Politics.

At a special-called board meeting today, the Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency chose the design team for a new 600-million dollar convention center.

New pharmacy schools opening this fall at Belmont and Lipscomb Universities received approval to enroll students today.

State officials made reporters leave an informational meeting about the “voluntary buyout plan” for state employees today in Nashville. State Finance Commissioner Dave Goetz claimed he was protecting the privacy of employees, whom the administration is trying to buyout.

A new study shows that Tennessee students have made solid gains in math and reading since the institution of No Child Left Behind, but its authors question whether the state’s kids are being held to high enough standards.

Parents and teachers expressed their frustration with the special education system in Metro schools at a public forum last night.

A hearing at Hillwood High School about a plan that would end mandatory cross-town bussing for Metro Schools drew only a light crowd of parents and teachers last night.