Project for Student Success
In December 2007, Mayor Karl Dean convened a 40-member task force called Project for Student Success to develop ways to reduce the number of students dropping out of Metro Nashville Public Schools. The task force sub-divided into four groups, each focused on one of the four key factors research has shown to influence a student's decision to dropout: student risk factors, chronic poor academic performance, family and parental roles, and community risk factors. After six months of work, the task force presented its recommendations to Mayor Dean on June 25, 2008.
- Project for Student Success: Report to Mayor Dean
- PowerPoint Presentation of Report
- Watch the co-chairs deliver the recommendations:
- Read the press release announcing the recommendations
- Read the press release announcing the task force
Mayor Karl Dean (middle) and Project for Student Success co-chairs Vice Mayor Diane Neighbors and Bob Fisher, President of Belmont University