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It's the 50th Annual ASCAP Awards and FOX17 Entertainment Reporter Stacy McCloud joins us from Opryland with more on this year's winners and honorees. ASCAP is a performing rights organization, so they work hard all year making sure songwriters and publishers get paid. Tonight, they are honoring some of their best members for some of their best work. You probably don't recognize many of the people performing tonight, but they are the ones responsible for penning some of your favorite songs. Many times artists are involved in writing or co-writing the music. From newer artists like Dierks Bentley to legends like Lyle Lovett, who received the Creative Voice Award, they too were honored tonight. Speaking of artists that do both, Songwriter/Artist of the Year went to ASCAP member Brad Paisley.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against the Metro Nashville Board of Education brought by a charter school that was ordered to be closed because of poor student performance.
The Metro School Board voted in November to shut down Smithson Craighead Middle School because the charter school ranked among the worst academic performers in the state and was losing enrollment.
Afterward, the school and parents filed a class action lawsuit against the board of education arguing that the board violated their due process and equal protection rights.
On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Kevin Sharp dismissed the lawsuit, rejecting the parents' claim that they would be forced to send their children to inferior schools and denying that the charter's rights were violated.
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