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What Metro Nashville Public Schools Faces This School Year

As school heads back into session for the 2026-27 year, Metro Nashville Public Schools faces a number of new challenges, opportunities and mandates that affect students, teachers and families. From new laws from the state legislature to increased state spending on vouchers to new school start times and a giant budget, MNPS starts the year with a bevy of things on the slate. Here are a few of the larger items facing the district:

MNPS Makes Adjustment to School Start and End Times

After community input and surveys to families last year, Metro Nashville Public Schools will start this year with a new schedule. Start and end times for elementary, middle and high school will now be staggered, with later start times for high school and elementary and no change to the middle school schedule. The Metro Nashville Board of Education voted to approve the schedule ahead of the 2026-27 school year.

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The Art of Honesty

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Recently while traveling for work in Chicago, I came upon an art gallery along the Magnificent Mile. I’d noticed the enormous canvas works walking by before I noticed the free entry sign at the front door and walked in. Quietly, I paced myself through the floor-to-ceiling paintings, noticing how the artist had hidden images in the paint itself in some of them. Layers of bright yellow, green and shades of pink and purple paint were outlined in thick strokes of white and black on one. I thought: “Is that smoke rising from a building?

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‘Tennessee Voices, American Stories’ Shows Tennessee’s Contributions to America’s History

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The Tennessee State Museum opened Tennessee Voices, American Stories on Jan. 13 to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Tennessee State Museum

The exhibition, which is organized around three concepts from the preamble to the U.S. Constitution: “We the People,” “A More Perfect Union,” and “The Blessings of Liberty,” highlights items from the museum’s collection. Miranda Fraley Rhodes, Ph.D, is the assistant chief curator at the Tennessee State Museum. She curated this show, and says the exhibit shares artifacts and stories related to remarkable people who helped to build Tennessee and the United States.