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This Memorial Day weekend could be hot enough to break a few daily high-temperature records around Middle Tennessee. The forecast calls for highs in the mid nineties through Monday.

A review of the Tennessee’s controversial new system for evaluating teachers is due out in the next couple of weeks. The state’s top education official doubts it will bring many surprises.

Some Republican lawmakers could push back against Governor Bill Haslam over expanding pre-kindergarten education. Haslam said earlier this week he’ll look at adding to the program if more state tax dollars keep rolling in.

Tennessee’s unemployment rate ticked slightly down again last month. It’s now at 7.8 percent – just a hair better than the national rate. One reason is more Tennesseans who are out of a job seem have stopped looking for one.

Tennessee is getting another $4 million to plan an insurance exchange as part of the politically uncertain federal healthcare overhaul. The grant is the fourth and so far biggest for planning Tennessee’s exchange, which would be a state-run marketplace online, like Expedia for people choosing insurance plans.

This summer about 15 thousand math teachers and school principals in Tennessee will all learn to give the same lessons in the classroom. It’s part of a push toward ‘Common Core’ standards, adopted in 45 states to get schools teaching the same lessons.

A new call center in Clarksville is expected to create roughly 500 jobs over the next year or so.

Bridges repairs on the interstate east of downtown Nashville this weekend could complicate an already busy Saturday in the area. State transportation officials say they’ve tried to be accommodating in scheduling closures for I-24, but they can’t postpone the repairs forever.

Interstate bridge repairs east of downtown Nashville are continuing on schedule, despite a couple inches of rain over the weekend. The road work near LP field is on a tight timeframe to finish in August, before Titans football season gets underway . This past weekend was one of the most ambitious on the schedule.