Nashville’s students of color face an achievement gap. These board members just voted down every plan to address it.
MNPS Board of Education members voted down five proposed public charter schools.
New state law may hold 700 Nashville fourth-graders back
Even under a best-case scenario, hundreds of Metro-Nashville Public School (MNPS) students will have to repeat the fourth-grade next year under a new state law.That’s according to district Executive Director of the Department of Research, Assessment, and Evaluation Christine Stenson, who updated members of the MNPS Board of Education Tuesday night on the potential impact Tennessee’s new Third-Grade Retention Law will have on district fourth-graders.
Metro Nashville School Board votes to close one of northeast Nashville’s highest performing elementary schools
Jauana Luiz Cruz says the transition of moving to Nashville from Mexico was a huge challenge for her elementary school age son.Speaking through an interpreter at Tuesday's Metro School Board meeting, Cruz says language barriers were especially a problem and her son hated school so much she worried the family might have to make an emotionally difficult decision of moving him back to Mexico.That changed after a coworker connected the family with Rocketship Nashville Northeast Elementary School. The public charter school is among the most diverse in the Maplewood School Cluster and Cruz said her son has thrived there.