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The tough economy has left at least ten thousand Tennessee school children drifting with their families from motel rooms, to friends’ couches, to a relative’s home for shelter. School officials who track that movement call them families “living in transition.” WPLN’s Anne Marshall has the story of one family struggling to keep life as normal as possible.

A state task force fighting Tennessee’s high obesity rate is looking to the law as one way to do it.

Doctors at Vanderbilt’s Children’s Hospital have tried to help hundreds of overweight kids with little success over the last five years. The reason is that children can’t lose weight on their own. WPLN’s Anne Marshall reports.

Thirteen teachers from all over the world are wrapping up their semester spent in Metro Schools and studying at Vanderbilt’s Peabody College.

Davidson County has a 40% childhood obesity rate, but one program is making initial strides to change that. WPLN’s Anne Marshall reports on the Veggie Project, an effort to turn the kids least likely to eat healthy, into vegetable lovers.

The Metro School Board denied all applications for new charter schools at last night’s board meeting.

Metro Schools Director Jesse Register says better pay and possibly a free masters degree will recruit and retain better teachers.

The program Davidson County uses to deport undocumented immigrants arrested in Nashville passed its first hurdle to continuing.

To boost graduation rates, Nashville’s largest high school wants to promise money for college.

As of July 1, 2010, Metro Nashville’s Finance Department will control theTennessee State Fairgrounds.