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A small group of inmates, even those with life-sentences, are earning a free college education.

One year after Tennessee won $500 million in the federal Race to the Top competition, the efforts to win the race itself may be what has the lingering impact.

Metro schools are experimenting with Saturday morning classes.

As charter schools grow in number and popularity in Nashville, the school district says it’s costing them a growing amount of money.

For almost twenty years Tennessee has tracked how much students are learning from year to year,but that data wasn’t tied to teacher evaluations – until now.

Metro’s first charter school, is rejoicing. The school nearly closed due to poor performance on math assessment tests.

The Metro School District is giving close to five thousand parents the chance to move their child to a new school – immediately. Metro wanted to avoid offering mid-year transfers, but their request was denied.

In the next few days, the Metro School District is supposed to start allowing students
in underperforming schools to transfer to a better school. It’s required by law, but the
district is asking the federal government for a break from that mandate.

For 25 years local congregations have taken in the homeless on winter nights providing a bed and a meal, but compassion is the Room In The Inn’s underlying goal.

For years, school principals have visited classrooms to watch teachers in action. Now those known classroom observations are being transformed and multiplied.