Recently released data from the Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools shows about a third of the district’s 85,000 student population does not speak English as a first language. Of those 25,300 students, more than 12,300 require special services, primarily in elementary…
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Immigration Irony: Sumner County’s First Baby of 2016 is Latino
Sumner County’s first baby of the new year, Anthony Balderas Vasquez, was born at 10:22 p.m. on Jan. 1, 2016, at TriStar Hendersonville Medical Center in Hendersonville. Anthony is a healthy baby boy weighing 7 lbs. and 7 oz. He…
Read MoreMetro Teaching Foreigners How to Be American
Nashville’s stunning growth of 80 people a day is matched by an important group within that group. The latest figures show that 12 percent of Nashville residents are foreign born. With that in mind, an Office of New Americans was…
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