Nashville Public Education Foundation, 140 businesses team for campaign Through its second annual Show Your Love for Teachers campaign, the Nashville Public Education Foundation has announced more than 140 businesses are now providing discounts as …
New “Teacher’s Week” pushes business discounts for public school teachers
How does Nashville show its love to its public school teachers? It lights up the city red and pink and launches the largest educator discount program in the Southeast! Through its second annual Show Your …
Nashville wants residents to show their love for teachers
Nashville will light up pink and red Monday to kickoff a month-long event honoring educators in the city. The lighting of the buildings marks the kickoff of the second annual “Show Your Love For Teachers” month, …
What Nashville schools chief Shawn Joseph needs from you
According to nearly every metric, Nashville is hot and getting hotter. Metro Nashville holds the 20th spot on Forbes’ 2017 list of the fastest-growing cities in America — this after coming in fourth on the …
2017 In Charge – Education
In what has long been an annual tradition, the Post team presents In Charge, a compendium of Middle Tennessee’s top business, political and civic leaders. The roughly 500 women and men found on our list, …
Public Ed Foundation add staff, shuffles board
Nashville Public Education Foundation has added Jennifer Hill, Melinda Judd, Terri Totty and Colleen Gilligan to its team, as well as new board members David Williams and Wanda Lyle. Hill has been hired as the …
Nashville education foundation seeking nominees
The Nashville Public Education Foundation is looking for nominees to be honored during its 13th annual Public Schools Hall of Fame Luncheon. This year’s annual event will be held on Oct. 4 at the Omni Nashville …
Nashville’s third-graders trail the state in reading proficiency. Here’s the city’s plan to change that.
As Tennessee grapples with its reading problem, Nashville has kicked off its own literacy effort aimed at accelerating the reading skills of the city’s youngest students. The Nashville Literacy Collaborative recently launched as a six-month …
How you can help improve Metro schools’ reading level
Metro’s new director of schools, Shawn Joseph, has made it clear that raising childhood literacy rates will be front and center in his administration. Mayor Megan Barry has been in lockstep with Joseph on the …
Nashville school district lacks a central vision, transition team says
The presentation Tuesday night of the over 100 recommendations laid out as a foundation by Director Shawn Joseph’s transition team to improve Metro Nashville Public Schools barely touched on the underlying reasoning. Within the appendix of the recommendations, however, …
