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In order to save five million dollars in this tight budget year, Metro Nashville Schools is proposing cutting their more than 600 janitors and maintenance workers, and outsourcing all that work. The district did this same cost-cutting move unsuccessfully in the early 1990s, so they are trying to go about it a different way.

The Metro Nashville School District wants to start a virtual high school where kids can take classes online. That’s one of two new programs that have made it into next school year’s tight budget.

Metro Schools may cut 665 jobs to help offset a $35 million budget gap next school year. This morning district officials released their first draft of a budget that totals $633 million.

The candidates running to be Tennessee’s next governor appear to be on the same page when it comes to helping Tennessee farmers and ranchers. All six say they think preserving the family farm is important. As is protecting state dollars earmarked for improving farmland.

Chances are most middle schoolers aren’t thinking about acing their SAT’s. But, for the roughly 700 students in Nashville’s charter middle schools, kids aren’t just thinking about college, they’re visiting campuses. That’s just one way life as a charter student differs from their peers in traditional schools. As our week-long series on charter schools continues, WPLN’s Anne Marshall reports.

Of Metro’s 5,000 teachers, roughly 100 work in charters. While they make up a small group, for the most part they’re very similar to traditional public school teachers. Both are certified and both want kids to succeed. The differences lie in the way the school day plays out and the demands placed upon them. WPLN’s Anne Marshall reports.

The Metro Nashville School District is bracing for an estimated $35 million shortfall next school year. What’s helped bail the district out of similar budget situations isn’t an option anymore.

For the first time, Metro High School students got to don a cap and gown and graduate in the winter. The ceremony took place Tuesday night.

The Metro Nashville school district is moving up its deadline for charter school applications, in hopes of giving approved charters more time to get ready for that first day of school.

More people are asking for help from the Salvation Army in Nashville. Those requests are not only coming from the homeless, but those on the edge of not making ends meet.