Nashville Works to Balance School Improvement and Diversity

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Nashville Struggles to Balance School Improvement and Diversity

This week we’ve been visiting schools across the south where student populations have increasingly resegregated. In the final installment in our series, we go to Nashville, where public school officials are finding it a challenge to balance school improvement plans with a desire for racial diversity. The Southern Education Desk’s LaTonya Turner reports.

~ LaTonya Turner

 

 

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