Many of those groups are still at it. About two dozen people gathered outside Cooper’s downtown Nashville office on Friday to call on the lawmaker to get behind various climate change, policing and health care proposals.
“I don’t think he’s done enough,” says Audrey Tesi of Black Lives Matter Nashville. “I’ve seen him provide some statements, but those are empty statements. It’s not enough to say, ‘I hear and see you and I empathize with you.’ That does not provide materially effective change for the Black community.”
Cooper has long been known as a moderate Democrat a budget hawk who made a name for himself in the 1990s
Metro School Board says it can t investigate ethics complaint against board member
The Metro Nashville Board of Education said it can only form an ethics committee to investigate if there are financial conflicts.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) â There are new developments in an ethics complaint against a Metro School Board member after the school board said it s moving on and can t investigate it.
The Metro Nashville Board of Education said it can only form an ethics committee to investigate if there are financial conflicts. All of this stemmed from some back-and-forth on Facebook â not money.
MNPS partners with Meharry for COVID-19 testing for students and teachers in schools
Metro Nashville Public Schools plans to partner with Meharry Medical College to be aggressive when it comes to COVID-19 testing.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) â While a lot of Nashville teachers have big concerns about returning to in-person learning, at least one of them access to COVID 19 testing won t be one of them.
Metro Nashville Public Schools plans to partner with Meharry Medical College to be aggressive when it comes to COVID-19 testing. Identify hot spots that might arise, make sure we keep it from spreading throughout the system so that we donât have to do a shutdown, explained Patrick Johnson of Meharry Medical College during a news conference Monday.
Phased return to in-person learning will last more than a month Nashville students will begin a phased return to in-person learning on Thursday, as school officials grapple with the challenge of running the city’s schools during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Metro Nashville Public Schools Director Adrienne Battle and other city leaders announced the reopening plan at an event Monday.
Students at certain contracted special day schools will return on Thursday, followed by students with exceptional needs and those in pre-kindergarten through fourth grade next week. Students in fifth and ninth grades will return to schools on Feb. 18, followed by students in sixth, seventh and eighth grades on Feb. 25, with 10th, 11th and 12th graders returning on March 3. Only students whose families opted in for in-person learning will be required to return to classrooms, while others will remain learning from home.
That was before the Navigator program kicked in.
The program, tracked through weekly phone and video calls, is an ambitious effort to keep students and families from slipping out of reach as distance learning extends into next year.
Navigator’s count revealed a deeper problem. Another 1,200 families had unstable housing. Some doubled up in apartments with relatives and others weren’t sure if they’d make next month’s rent.
“It really just sets the stage for [housing] to be an acceptable topic for us to care about,” said Knowles, the district’s homeless liaison. And with a national eviction moratorium set to expire at the end of this month, she added that many of those families could be left without shelter.