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May 1, 2021 GMT BRENTWOOD, Tenn. (AP) — An educational app has responded to the request of a 7-year-old Tennessee student by adding hairstyle options for Black girls to its avatars, The Tennessean reported. Last month, Morgan Bugg, of Brentwood, was using the Freckle app as a part of her online, first-grade curriculum. The app gives students the opportunity to win coins while completing math and reading activities. But when Morgan went to redeem her coins and create her own avatar, she saw no hairstyle options for Black female students like her. “I felt kind of sad and jealous that there ...

View Comments The Metro Nashville Board of Education denied two charter school applications Tuesday, kicking off what has become a process of denials and appeals for those hoping to open charter schools in the city. Despite meeting or partially meeting the standards required to open, an application to open a new dual-language K-8 school in South Nashville and an application to establish “Nashville Classical Charter School II” were both denied.  The dual-language school, Aventura Community School, proposed providing instruction in English and Spanish for about 930 students starting with ...