“We’ve got to face the reality,” Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris said. “The (Cordova) project may not be dead permanently, but it’s suffered a pretty big death blow.”

As of last year, the University of Memphis’ dual-enrollment program is the largest in the state, serving nearly 3,000 teens in 60 schools in Shelby County.

Lee called it “a great idea” to dismantle the agency, which was created under a 1979 federal law during President Jimmy Carter’s administration.

“It’s a one-time bonus that’s basically asking us to sell out our public schools,” said Liz Marable, a longtime Memphis educator who is currently president of the United Education Association of Shelby County. “But we are not for sale.”

Organizers of the More for Memphis plan are pitching elected officials on a new board to assign more than $1 billion in funding to efforts they say would solve the city’s economic mobility problem.

The Dietz family is requesting a judge allow their son, who has multiple disabilities, to return to school with the dog.

With students out of class and teachers participating in in-service training, police simulated gunfire to help workers understand the sounds of gunshots in buildings.

Christian Brothers University eliminated 12 vacant positions, plus eight part-time and full-time nonfaculty roles, and some school leaders have taken pay cuts in an effort to regain solid financial footing after being placed on probation.

The governor said he looks forward to delivering on his promise for more education choices for parents.

The analysis has national implications for ongoing reforms aimed at making swift and dramatic improvement to persistently low-performing schools.

LeMoyne-Owen’s new permanent president wanted a mascot to enhance the school’s culture. 

Creating the superintendent evaluation rubric was a contentious process that revealed rifts among school board members and Marie Feagins, who has led the district for the last seven months.

Ryan Strain won’t be chairman next year on the Germantown Board of Education, but his seat in Position 1 is undoubtedly secure.

Avron B. Fogelman’s gift is the single largest gift to the business college and among the largest to the campus as a whole.

Although no MSCS schools are being used as voting sites this year, MSCS schools are still closed for students Tuesday. 

More than 80% of Memphis-Shelby County Schools’ eligible seniors earned their diplomas for the 2023-24 school year.

Julian Cross is the second Memphis-Shelby County Schools staffer to depart the Office of the Superintendent this month.

Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson told school board members the governor is planning a “substantial” increase for public education funding in 2025 but didn’t specify how much or for what.

Unopposed for his second term on the Germantown Board of Education, Curry reflected on the past four years and what he sees ahead.

The executive director of the Tennessee Public Charter School Commission said the school has shown improvement in the past two years and generally outperforms nearby middle schools operated by the local district.

Superintendent Marie Feagins is embracing a “back to basics” approach to reading instruction as Memphis-Shelby County Schools seeks to improve student test results. 

Paul Childers reflected on his first term on the school board and thought about some of the challenges on the horizon.

The special assistant to Superintendent Marie Feagins had been in the newly created role for four months.

The money he won for the school will be put into the automotive shop, but the $15,000 he won for himself will likely take Sneed back to Europe where he was deployed with the Army.

Michael Kidd-Gilchrist has helped pass bills in two states to make insurance cover speech therapy. Tennessee is one of his next targets.