Members of the Williamson County business community are invited to be part of an exciting new partnership called BEST: Bringing Enterprises and Schools Together.

As part of the program, the WCS Career and Technical Education Department is seeking to expand its list of professionals who would like to get involved with local schools as a speaker; host for student and teacher job shadowing, service learning or co-op placement; or summer internships for students or teachers.

The goal is to provide students and teachers with exposure to experiences in the business community, which will in turn lead to an increased awareness of current practices.  This awareness will then be translated into relevant student learning activities and appropriate learning experiences.

Interested professionals can volunteer to be a partner in BEST by completing and submitting the information ONLINE.

Newsweek magazine changed the way it calculates its annual list of the nation's top high schools, shuffling the Tennessee schools who made it.Perennial top winner Martin Luther King Jr. Academic High in Nashville is nowhere to be found on the list released today. But Hume Fogg Academic High, another list favorite, came in at 33rd in the nation.

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