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Nashville Teaching Jobs a Focus of New Initiative

Friday, April 9th, 2010

Nashville teaching jobs will be one of the main focuses of a new statewide education initiative.

Gov. Phil Bredesen recently announced creation of the Tennessee Education Innovation Plan, an initiative that includes a range of education-reform proposals designed to spur improvement in the state’s education pipeline, specifically focusing on improving student performance and graduation rates at both the high school and college levels.

The plan is composed of two bills, including the “Tennessee First to the Top Act of 2010,” which will work toward the U.S. Department of Education’s Race to the Top Fund, and the “Complete College Tennessee Act of 2010,” which will focus on improving college completion rates.
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Nashville Construction Jobs See Biggest Yearly Decline

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

When compared to last year, more Nashville construction jobs were lost during October than jobs in any other industry.

During October, the Nashville-Davidson-Murfreesboro-Franklin area saw its unemployment rate decrease from 9.2 percent to 9.1 percent, following a decrease from 9.7 percent during September. The area’s current rate is lower than the national unemployment rate at the time of 10.2 percent.

The Nashville area had a total non-farm employment of 727,500 workers during October, according to the U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics. This is down from 728,300 workers during September and a 3.8 percent decrease from last year.

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