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The first sentence of the Board’s Educator Diversity policy states, “The Hamilton County Board of Education believes that students deserve access to diverse, effective teachers and high-quality instruction.
Richmond has been serving as interim superintendent since the board fired former superintendent, Dr. Marie Feagins last year.
The district has received a waiver covering five impacted days and will not need to adjust its school calendar.
County commissioners approved the plan last year to align all nine school board seats on the same 2026 election cycle.
Knox Prep said the school is facing challenges across multiple fronts, including lower-than-expected enrollment and academic outcomes.
The change will move most high school start and dismissal times forward by twenty minutes, and elementary start and dismissal times forward by 10 minutes.
A spokesperson for Metro Nashville Public Schools says as of Thursday night, 17 schools were still without power, and another eight were experiencing partial outages due to Winter Storm Fern.
On a 6-2 vote, the Tennessee Public Charter School Commission granted Knowledge Academy at the Crossing’s appeal for a five-year renewal of its charter agreement.
Those schools have been without formal custodial services this year, following a decision last month against approving a contract with ABM Industries.
At Tuesday night’s board work session, multiple members expressed support to keep interim superintendent Dr. Roderick Richmond on the job.
The Gate School would utilize the Harkness Method, which involves discussion-based teaching, with small groups of students sitting around an oval table rather than in rows of desks.
Holly Logan is an English as a Second Language teacher at Westwood Elementary School and serves the district by training, supporting, and mentoring fellow educators and providing translation services.
One board member questioned whether proposals to change start times truly addressed student needs, while others expressed concerns about busing.
State Senator Brent Taylor has agreed to move forward with State Representative Mark White’s plan to create a state-appointed oversight board for Memphis-Shelby County Schools.
The Davidson County Chancellor issued an order Thursday that clears Metro Nashville Public Schools to move forward with a controversial school rezoning plan for South Nashville and Antioch.
KA @ the Crossings is appealing last month’s decision by the Metro Nashville Public Schools Board of Education to deny a new charter agreement with the school.
STRIVE leaders announced Wednesday that they’re planning to close the school at the end of the 2025-26 school year, in part because their building has been sold and the new owners are asking the school to vacate at the end of June.
Commissioner Sugarmon’s resolution would allow five school board members to serve out their complete four-year term.
The district unveiled three proposals for school start times this week, including one that shifts high school bells by 20 minutes.
The decision follows a complaint from a parent about the book's graphic content last week, after a high school teacher selected it as supplementary material for an English class.
A Tennessee Firefly analysis of the state’s School Report Card, released this week, found that student performance dropped in every subject once MNPS took over the school in the 2024-25 school year.
355 schools across the state received an overall A letter grade, compared to 290 last year.
Board attorneys argue that election officials had no authority to place the terms of five school board members up for re-election two years early.
Members failed to approve a $7.2 million contract with ABM Industries to clean all district buildings in the region for the 2026 calendar year.
Among the improvements planned for the school are modernized classrooms and learning spaces, a new gymnasium, and an upgraded cafeteria.
District leadership successfully nominated 12 people to serve on the committee, including Knoxville NAACP President Rev. Sam Brown, who spoke out against the concept of charter schools in 2023 , as causing “serious harm” to public schools.
LEAD Public Schools filed a motion for contempt against Metro Nashville Public Schools on Thursday, alleging the district is hiding information from parents in South Nashville to steer their children away from attending LEAD Cameron Middle School.
Members of the Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) Board of Education voted unanimously against renewing Knowledge Academy at The Crossings' charter for another 10 years on Tuesday night.