📝 Can you pass our 3rd-grade TCAP test?

🤧 Nashville’s Failing Grade

The American Lung Association has released its annual “State of the Air” report, and sorry to my fellow local asthmatics, it doesn’t look good. On today’s podcast, we’re chatting about our failing environmental report card, plus early voting, East Bank developments, and more news from the week. [🎧 City Cast Nashville]

🏘️ New Affordable Housing

Mayflower Apartments, a 1920s complex in Hillsboro Village, has been acquired by The Pathway Housing Fund, an affordable housing nonprofit. Pathway plans to protect the long-term affordability of the Mayflower’s 18 apartments amid Nashville’s rising rents. It’s the third property Pathway has bought this year. [WKRN]

• Listen to our conversation with the Metro Planning Department about Nashville’s affordable housing crisis. [🎧 City Cast Nashville]
• Wondering what the average rent in Nashville is? Take this quiz to find out!

🏛️ TN Legislature Wraps Up

The 114th Tennessee General Assembly has come to a close, marking Gov. Bill Lee’s final session as the state’s governor, and the last for retiring Lt. Gov. Randy McNally. Despite heated debates over immigration, private school vouchers, and health care, many of the Republican supermajority’s bills passed. Stay tuned for more coverage on Monday’s podcast. [Nashville Scene]

• A bill requiring the Nashville Electric Service to add board members from each county it operates in with 3,500 or more customers passed the state legislature and heads to Gov. Bill Lee’s desk. [🔐 The Tennessean]
• The state legislature has also added more protections to the Duck and other scenic rivers, rolled back testing requirements for the Education Savings Account private school vouchers, and decided to fund child care pilot programs using a foreign money transfer tax. [Tennessee Lookout; Chalkbeat Tennessee; WKRN]

This week, local third through eighth-grade students have been participating in mandatory Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program tests. To continue to fourth grade, third graders must “meet or exceed” expectations on the English Language Arts portion of the test or receive intervention services.

I’ve compiled five questions from the TN Dept. of Education’s mock TCAP test for third graders. Could you pass the third-grade TCAP test? Test yourself to find out! And share this test with friends to compare scores!

1. Which change, if any, is needed to the bold text?

Fred Henry spent the first five years of his life living in a cage until his human rescued him three years ago. He’s been living the pampered furbaby life ever since. A transplant from Michigan, Fred will always be a Michigan Wolverine fan, though he’s a happy boy living in Nashville. He wears his Michigan jersey when he watches football with his mom, and he also loves taking walks and sitting on the patio in the afternoons.

So glad you found your furever home, Fred!

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