Memphis-Shelby County Schools
Century-old Humes was operated as a charter under the state’s unraveling Achievement School District.
A Council of the Great City Schools leader said the team could be used as a model for other new superintendents
Charter networks, both inside and outside the state, are tracking the legislation.
Students in Craigmont High’s new Earth and space sciences class watched a preview before looking up to the sky.
A consultant for Juvenile Court found that just half of students were attending class, and that the curriculum didn’t keep them on track for graduation.
GOP leaders acknowledge that the Achievement School District district had failed in its turnaround mission.
Board members say the provisions in Marie Feagins’ agreement were necessary to protect the district.
Proposed legislation is meant to ‘expand what’s working,’ according to Memphis Rep. Mark White, the bill’s sponsor.
The Detroit schools administrator is already working with MSCS under a short-term contract.
University could use charter groups to expand its reach and replicate teaching and learning models.
A state lawmaker is giving the Memphis-Shelby County school board time to devise an improvement plan before pursuing legislation to empower Gov. Bill Lee to appoint up to six new members to the locally elected body.
The turnaround initiative has produced few wins. But without it, Tennessee must come up with a new plan.
Rep. Mark White cites prolonged frustration with the board’s locally elected leadership
Memphis-Shelby County Schools board members’ selection meeting signals an end to the tortuous search for a successor to former Superintendent Joris Ray, and the possibility of the first outside leader in more than a decade.
Some Memphians say they will be listening for ways candidates may learn and lead in a new city.
Nearly 50 Memphis-Shelby County public schools would get new investments for their buildings or academic programming under a facility plan that district leaders are developing.
Williams cites the district’s infrastructure improvements as a key step, and calls on other community partners to pitch in.
Leader of Tennessee school board group and a superintendent explain why they strongly denounced the updated A-F grading system and a proposed expansion of private-school vouchers.
Yolonda Brown, Marie Feagins, and Cheryl Proctor will face a round of in-depth interviews in January.
In order to maintain some of the academic strategies and programs supported by expiring pandemic relief funds, the district may reexamine how its schools are run.