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Middle Schools in Nashville are reconfiguring their school day to help kids struggling with math and reading.

A new program allowing Davidson County residents to borrrow bicycles to ride is supposed to make Nashville healthier, but reaching that goal will require a lot more pedaling.

Schools across Tennessee are anxiously awaiting state test scores to see if they’ll be labeled passing, struggling, or failing. At a Nashville charter school, Smithson-Craighead Academy, the stakes are high. It may close.

Tennessee teachers have seen how their students performed on achievement tests taken in the spring. Parents know too, because their child’s scores were mailed in October. But individual schools and districts still don’t know if they did well enough to avoid being labeled struggling or failing.

Workers are grateful for the temporary positions but worry about when the next paycheck will come.

The Metro Homelessness Commission reports 56 out of the 60 Housing First participants have been permanently housed, giving the program a 92 percent retention rate.

Housing First takes the long time homeless, hands them an apartment key, and matches them with a social worker who fills in as family. But it doesn’t require rehab, and that’s made winning over skeptics difficult.

Nashville’s last homeless count reported more than 2,000 people living on the streets. It’s estimated several hundred are chronically homeless.

Children struggling with obesity in two rural counties are visiting a Vanderbilt weight management clinic, without the hassle of a long drive.

A brand new $13 million building in downtown Nashville will now act as a service hub for the homeless. Its mission is to get the chronically homeless stable and independent.