Infographics
Our infographics, policy briefs, reports, and other resources increase understanding of critical topics in public education and provide support for research-based solutions.
Understanding Tennessee's State Assessment System
Our infographic unpacks the state's student academic assessment system, including important terminology, how MNPS students are performing, how testing data can be used in helpful ways, and what we can learn from other states.Download Infographic
What You Need to Know About Career and Technical Education
Career and Technical Education (CTE) describes courses in middle and high school that seek to expose and prepare students for careers aligned to industry needs and can lead to industry certifications and apprenticeships. Our Need to Know infographic breaks down CTE in Tennessee, including the 16 career clusters offered.Download Infographic
What Works in Urban Education: Teacher Retention
The second in our What Works in Urban Education series highlights the challenge of teacher retention and shares several creative practices showing promise in retaining public school teachers across the country.Download Resource
What Works in Urban Education: Teacher Recruitment
The first in our What Works in Urban Education series highlights the challenge of teacher recruitment and shares several creative practices showing promise in recruiting public school teachers across the country.Download Resource
Unpacking Tennessee's Education Savings Account/Voucher Program
In 2019, the Tennessee Legislature approved a pilot program in Memphis and Nashville to launch the Education Savings Account Program, also known as vouchers, which provide tuition vouchers to families to withdraw from public school and attend private school. Our infographic explains the potential impact of proposed legislation to expand the program statewide.Download Infographic
What We Know about the Impact of School Vouchers
In 2019, Tennessee passed its first law implementing school vouchers - a dedicated amount of funding that families can access and use for private school tuition. Research on vouchers has yielded mixed outcomes on student achievement at the same time that sustainability and accountability have posed challenges. Our infographic explores the research on voucher programs across the country.Download Infographic
Unpacking MNPS's A-F Accountability Ratings
Tennessee recently implemented an A-F school accountability system, assigning a letter grade to eligible public schools statewide. Our new infographic helps break down the distribution of letter grades across MNPS, explains the indicators used to assign these grades, and highlights bright spots and challenges posed by the new accountability system.Download Infographic
What is the New A-F School Accountability System?
To help demystify the state's new plan for school accountability, we created an infographic to break down the details, share what we know about A-F systems in other states, and take a deeper look at lessons learned from Florida, the state with the oldest A-F system in the country.Download Infographic
What You Need to Know About Federal Funding for Education
The Tennessee General Assembly recently appointed a legislative panel to look into the impact of rejecting federal funds for public education. In order to help inform community conversations on this important topic, we’ve created this resource on how federal funding works in public education, including the use of federal funds in MNPS, the use of one-time federal COVID relief funds, and what is required of states that accept federal dollars for education.Download Infographic
What You Need to Know About School Accountability
As the TN Department of Education prepares to implement the new school letter grading accountability system this fall, we have released a new resource to help understand what school accountability looks like in Tennessee ahead of the new policy.Download Infographic
How Do Charter Schools Work in Nashville?
Our latest infographic explains how charter schools operate and serve public school students in Nashville, including key facts and data on enrollment, how these schools are authorized, and the requirements and accountability systems in place.Download Infographic
What You Need to Know about Early Postsecondary Opportunities
Our latest resource explains what Early Postsecondary Opportunities (EPSOs) are and why they are so important for student success.Download Resource
Timeline: Towards a City that Prioritizes Children and Youth
For every student to thrive in school, we need a city that prioritizes children and youth in all aspects of their lives. Our timeline takes a look back at 20 years of city actions to support children and youth.Download Timeline
Understanding MNPS School Options
Our infographic breaks down the many different types of schools in Metro Nashville Public Schools, from traditional zoned schools to magnet schools to charters and nontraditional options. Learn more about the multiple ways MNPS schools operate for Nashville’s students.Download Infographic
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What is the 3rd Grade Retention Law?
Our infographic provides important information on the new Tennessee law on retaining 3rd graders not meeting expectations on the English/Language Arts state test. View this resource to learn more about this law, what it means for MNPS, and the results other states have seen from similar laws.Download Infographic
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Infographic: Who are Nashville's Children and Youth?
Our infographic provides data and context for the children and youth of Nashville and the students of Metro Nashville Public Schools. We believe understanding who our children and youth are will help ensure we are meeting their needs and will help Nashville be the number one place to raise a family.Download Infographic
Infographic: Why TISA Should Adjust for Districts' High Labor Costs
Nashville is an expensive place to live and work. The state's school funding formula should account for that. Our infographic breaks down how a Cost Differential Factor (CDF) could help appropriately account for Nashville's high labor costs and ensure the state's new funding formula could better meet our students' needs.Download Infographic
Infographic: How TISA Affects MNPS
The state's new funding formula makes some much needed improvements to the way our schools are funded, but also presents challenges for Nashville's schools. Our infographic breaks down how TISA affects funding in MNPS.Download Infographic
Infographic: Attending school in a fully funded district
Imagine with us: What would it look like to attend school in a fully funded district? Our infographic explores the possibilities of what full funding would provide our students and families and how it would ensure all students thrive in school. What does a fully funded district look like to you?Download Infographic
Infographic: Teaching in a fully funded district
Imagine with us: What would it look like to teach in a fully funded district? Our infographic explores the possibilities of what full funding would provide our district's educators and the impact for students and families. What does a fully funded district look like to you?Download Infographic
Infographic: Education Funding Glossary
View our infographic to learn the definitions of key terms related to the funding of our city's public schools, such as BEP, fiscal capacity, and Student-Based Budgeting.Download Infographic
Infographic: How Are Our Schools Funded?
View our infographic to learn about what BEP (Basic Education Plan) is and how it affects education funding in our state and city.Download Infographic
Infographic: Who Makes Decisions About Our Schools?
This infographic provides information on the roles played by local and state government and other stakeholders related to public education in Nashville.Download Infographic
