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Welcome to Tennessee, Where a Diploma Isn't Really a Diploma For Too Many

Welcome to Tennessee, Where a Diploma Isn’t Really a Diploma For Too Many

So you know how our students graduate from high school believing when they walk across the stage for that hard-earned diploma they are ready for the next level? Yeah, not so much. Thanks to a state-sponsored audit, we now know that a large portion of Tennessee graduates really didn’t graduate. Not at least with the necessary course requirements. The data reported last week by NPR’s Blake Farmer…

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"Chow bus! Chow bus! Chow bus!" chants Gunner Fischer, 3, as a custom-painted school bus rounds the corner and rumbles toward his apartment complex in Murfreesboro, Tenn.

About 21 million students nationwide eat free and reduced-price meals throughout the school year, but getting those same kids fed during the summer is a challenge. Only a fraction of those make it to schools or community centers for summer meals.

So some school districts are getting creative in the way they're using USDA funds: Murfreesboro City Schools is taking the cafeteria to the kids. The district calls it the Combating Hunger on Wheels Bus — or the CHOW bus.

This Summer, The Cafeteria Comes To The Kids

Illustration credit: LA Johnson/NPR

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Canvassing for potential students is standard for charter schools. But for traditional public school leaders, it's unfamiliar territory. 

Teachers Go Door-Knocking In Nashville

Illustration credit: LA Johnson/NPR