Metro Nashville Public Schools fell behind on every tested ACT measure and showed a marked drop in every category over last year’s results, according to 2016 ACT score results released to districts on Tuesday. With Metro Schools regressing slightly in…
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Why Metro Offers Free Lunches to All Students
Last year, I wrote about the lunch service at my daughter’s school after observing the busy kindergarteners navigating the lunch service. Afterward, I had questions and was able to interview Rebecca Polson, the executive chef for Metro Nashville Public Schools,…
Read MoreDespite Scandals and Poor Performance, Metro Teachers Get Big Pay Raise
Metro Nashville Public Schools has unveiled a new salary scale for certified employees that will result in significant pay increases for many teachers. According to a release, the new salary scale aligns MNPS salaries with regional market data at key…
Read MoreSchool Board Media Campaigns Draw Press Attention
A slickly-produced ad campaign is targeting the upcoming Metro school board elections. But just who is paying the bills? The people behind the group Nashville Rise refuse to say. But NewsChannel 5 Investigates did some digging and discovered the group…
Read MoreMetro Schools’ Cheating Scandal Worsens
A prominent Metro Schools principal has slammed an internal review of the district’s testing practices, calling it “inaccurate” and “misleading.” Susan Kessler, principal of Hunters Lane High School, criticized the review for not reflecting the role of higher-ups in the…
Read MoreAnother Scandal Hits Metro Schools
A Hamilton County teacher who resigned in 2014 following years of warnings and reprimands, was hired a year later by Metro Nashville Public Schools. Jason Hamrick was a teacher at Ooltewah High School from 1999 until 2014. Then-principal Ed Foster…
Read MoreAs Metro Schools Scandal Grows, Insiders Blame Each Other
An attorney for a Nashville high school principal at the center of a testing and grading controversy has warned Metro Schools that she’s prepared to sue over the district’s failure to defend her — or if the district takes any…
Read MoreMetro Schools’ Cheating Scandal Worsens
She was pulled from a course she was passing and told that she had failed. Now, yet another family fears their student may have been a victim of questionable testing and grading practices inside a struggling Nashville high school. “For…
Read MoreDespite Cheating Scandal, Chamber Approves of Metro Schools’ Performance
Since 1992, the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce has taken an annual detailed look at the state of Metro Nashville Public Schools through the lens of helping the district and community focus on key educational areas. Some points in this…
Read MoreMetro Schools Caught Cheating on Test Standards
A policy developed by Metro Nashville Public Schools, supposedly to help students, may also help bureaucrats to mask the real problems in those schools, a national testing expert told NewsChannel 5 Investigates. That plan, which the school system insists does…
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