Good morning, Nashville. We’ve been seeing the story pop up here and there for a while, but looks like Mayor Dean actually is bracing himself to take over Metro Nashville Public Schools, which the state may very well ask him to do if the schools don’t meet federal benchmarks. Yesterday, he took off to New York to get a little advice from Mayor Bloomberg since the mayor’s office has been running NYC’s public schools since 2002. Meanwhile, Mayor Dean continues to foot the bill for the superintendant search committee in the event that he gets to pass the buck to someone else; it’s been narrowed down to three applications.
- Creative solutions. Over a thousand homeless folks trekked down to the Municipal Auditorium yesterday to connect with more than 40 service providers as a part of Nashville’s first Project Homeless Connect. Metro Homelessness Commission put together the event, which was one of about 200 to happen this week all around the country.
- BREAKING: College is expensive. Unsurprisingly, Tennessee was one of the 49 states to get an F in college affordability. The only state that didn’t fail was California, who got a C. In other news, Tennessee college students could be looking at a 6% tuition hike next year…
- Bits & pieces. We’re totally bummed that we missed Amy Grant at Lipscomb’s Lighting of the Green ceremony yesterday! … UT’s new coach is looking to recruit some in-state talent from Hillsboro High School … Metro Council is kicking around some new ideas to boost the city’s economic development … From the Department of Sad Layoffs, publisher Thomas Nelson is prepping to cut 55 jobs … Nashville’s first openly gay councilman Keith Durbin is stepping down to run Metro’s IT department.
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