There are currently just 23 teaching vacancies systemwide. The two new school buildings opening this year, at Park Avenue and Mt. View, have passed all Codes inspections. The school year will begin on time at Antioch Middle, with work on that building continuing after school and on weekends.
Custodians continue to work overtime to clean and prepare buildings.
All student and office furniture are in place at Mt. View. Mt. View Elementary and Park Avenue Enhanced Option opened Aug. 12 and Whitsitt Elementary will open for the second semester. Additions have been completed at Granbery, Westmeade and Bellshire elementaries and construction has begun on new buildings for Napier and Hickman elementaries. More than 3,000 sutdents have been reassigned to schools closer to their homes. The Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, handicap, or age.