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From the Sounds Great in Theory If We Had a Perfect World Department:

Nice. Amy Griffith reports that the rezoning plan for Metro schools could be up for an up or down vote as early as Tuesday:

A consulting firm hired to improve the Metro public school advises cutting down on the flight of the middle class from the system:

Amy Griffith with the City Paper looks at the Metro Budget and finds some politicians clamoring for more money to pay for school bus 'monitors':

The Bedford County Board of Education passed its budget for the 2008-09 school year at its regular meeting last night, with total expenditures expected to increase by more than $4 million. Last...

The Bedford County Board of Education voted unanimously Thursday night to name the Community High School gym after county commission member Roger K. Brothers, a lifelong citizen of Bedford County....

The editorial voice of the City Paper argues that we need to slow down the process on the rezoning of Metro Schools and do a little brain surgery:

Amy Griffith reports that the mostly white “urban pioneeers” of Nashville’s downtown will likely not be successful in getting their neighborhoods exempt from a school rezoning plan which would have their children attending a majority black school:

Chris Sanders reports that the Metro Board of Education has passed additions to its nondiscrimination policy that include sexual orientation and gender identity.

Bedford County Board of Education reviewed preliminary budget figures Monday evening, and the school system -- like other government agencies -- is bracing for a drop in sales tax revenue and sharply...