Growth scores for Murfreesboro City Schools (MCS) show level 5 growth in all four categories according to the Tennessee Value-Added Assessment System (TVAAS) and achieved the advancing district designation. MCS students claimed a year of successful growth, by achieving the highest level, level 5, in literacy, numeracy, and composite scores. TVAAS, works in conjunction with…
The Wes Moore people are most likely familiar with is a Rhodes scholar, combat veteran, former White House fellow and entrepreneur, who recently stepped down as CEO of the Robin Hood Foundation — one of the largest anti-poverty nonprofits in the U.S. — and is currently a gubernatorial candidate in his home state of Maryland….
Discovery School and Overall Creek Elementary received the designation of Tennessee Reward Schools with Erma Siegel Elementary missing the designation by mere fractions of a point. Reward status is the top distinction a school can earn in Tennessee. The annual Reward School designation identifies schools that are improving overall student academic achievement and student growth…
No injuries were reported when a 15-year-old boy allegedly fired several rounds while standing on a sidewalk off campus toward La Vergne High School Tuesday afternoon, a Rutherford County Sheriff’s detective said. “He shot three rounds into the parking lot at dismissal,” said Detective Jamin Humphress. “There were a number of children in the parking…
Thousands of students have attended Buchanan Elementary School since it opened in 1976. One thing each one of them have in common is passing by the original Buchanan marquee that has been sitting alongside Manchester Highway. After 45 years, the well-worn sign soon will be replaced with a new LED sign. Funding for the project,…
Dr. Jimmy Sullivan is a self-proclaimed numbers guy. Prior to April 9, 2020, the data he concerned himself with was related to education and, more specifically, as the assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction, the data and the numbers had to do with Rutherford County Schools. It all changed on that Thursday. Sullivan was less…
The summer leading into her freshman year of high school, Katelyn Cahill lost her grandmother. Cahill was 14. Despite all the time she had spent with her maternal grandmother, she didn’t know half the people at the funeral home who came to pay their respects. But there was a common theme when it came to…
The Blackman High culinary program was one of a dozen schools throughout Middle Tennessee to receive in upwards of 300 of the 4,000 chef jackets donated by Cracker Barrel. Blackman instructor Frank Pinnix participated in a meeting with several other high school culinary educators — Lebanon, Wilson Central, Mt. Juliet, Green Hills, Cookeville, Memphis, Canon…
The Goddard School®, a nationally acclaimed early childhood education franchise, is breaking ground in Murfreesboro, TN, to bring the play-based learning experience to area families by summer of 2022. To celebrate the new Goddard School coming to the Nashville suburb, co-owners Cyndi Murphy, Leisa Byars and Del McSpadden were joined by members of the Rutherford…
The Rutherford County School Board unanimously approved a request from the County Commission’s Public Safety Committee to build a trio public health and safety buildings on three pieces of property located at Rockvale, Christiana and Walter Hill elementary schools. Each building will contain a pair of fire and ambulance bays with equipment. The stations —…