With spring break coming up, and state testing coming soon after it, time spent at home outside of school is even more important than usual. Leticia Skae, literacy teaching development specialist at MLK Magnet High …
Poll: Nashville Residents Want More Money For Schools
As Metro Nashville Public Schools deals with a major budget shortfall, a new survey released Thursday morning shows a majority of Nashville residents support increasing school funding. The citywide poll was conducted by Vanderbilt University, on …
Poll: Parents, voters agree the quality of Nashville’s schools is stagnant
A new poll shows parents and voters agree that the quality of Nashville’s public schools has remained stagnant over the past five years. The finding within the survey conducted by the Nashville Public Education Foundation of 500 …
Public overwhelmingly supports more funding for Nashville’s public schools
An overwhelming majority of Nashville residents – 81 percent – support increasing public school funding, according to the results of a citywide survey commissioned by the Nashville Public Education Foundation. Teacher pay, early literacy and …
Training Opportunity for Child Care Providers at the Nashville Public Library
Are you a child care provider? The Nashville Public Library has a terrific pre-K literacy program called Bringing Books to Life! that offers training workshops, story times, materials, resources and more. The program impacts teachers, …
Invitation To Participate: Alignment Nashville’s Summer Reading Partners
The Summer Reading Partners pilot, an initiative of the Pre-K–Elementary Alignment Team, aims to increase and strengthen summer learning opportunities for Nashville’s students. The “summer slide” can contribute to up to three years of literacy …
Let’s bridge the gap to college!
We all know that a college degree is key to achieving success in work and life. But for many of our students, making the leap from high school to college is more challenging than it …
Only one in four Nashville schools graduates earn a degree after leaving the district, report shows
Less than a quarter of Metro Nashville Public Schools’ 4,480 graduates in 2011 earned a college degree after they left the city’s schools. The majority of those degree-earning students graduated from four-year colleges, according to a …
New report highlights significant college access issues for Nashville
Report Marks First Step in Developing a Citywide Campaign to Increase College Completion Sixty percent of jobs require at least a bachelor’s degree. Yet, according to a new study released today, only 24 percent of …
