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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.

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.