Chalkbeat Tennessee
Chalkbeat Tennessee
Chalkbeat is a nonprofit news site covering educational change in public schools.
There are 15 articles by Chalkbeat Tennessee :
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September 2018
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Education The city that has been the epicenter of Tennessee’s school improvement work since 2012 got encouraging news on Friday as fewer Memphis schools landed on the state’s newest list of troubled schools. -
Education At least 5 Memphis schools now risk a state takeover
While Memphis mostly received good news when the state listed its most underachieving schools last week, at least five Shelby County schools appear to be at risk of state takeover. -
Downtown 17 schools in Tennessee’s turnaround district remain priority schools six years after first takeovers
Most of the schools that were taken over by Tennessee’s turnaround district remain on the state’s priority list six years after the intervention efforts began.
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October 2018
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Education Tennessee’s 2018 graduation rate steady at 89 percent
Just over 89 percent of Tennessee’s public high school students graduated on time in 2018, maintaining the state’s record-high rate from last year, education officials announced on Monday. -
Education Texas minister rallies Tennessee pastors against private school vouchers
A Texas pastor who has fought private school vouchers in his home state is bringing his call of support for traditional public education to Tennessee. -
Education Memphis high school’s prized planetarium still needs upgrades, but students are already fascinated by what it can do
Keshawn Glover remembers hearing his dad talk about field trips to Craigmont High School’s planetarium decades ago, but last week the high school senior got to experience the school’s crown jewel for himself. -
Education How Memphis students came face to face with the painful history in their school’s backyard
A few yards across from the parking lot of an all-boys Memphis school lies a small, tree-lined courtyard, where a class of eighth-graders studies a large historical marker.
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November 2018
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Education Tennessee students improve slightly on ACT in a year when national scores backslide
Tennessee’s average ACT score ticked up slightly this year, again landing above 20 and defying national trends on the college entrance exam, according to results released on Wednesday. -
Education Aspire Memphis’ future in question as board weighs paths forward
Facing a roughly $2 million operating deficit and lagging academic progress, a California-based charter organization that runs four schools in Memphis is reconsidering its future in the city – even floating the possibility of pulling out of the area altogether.
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January 2019
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Education Educators combat chronic absenteeism in Tennessee’s state-run school district
Research has shown that when students have more “familiar faces” around them in class, they’re less likely to be chronically absent, so nonprofits like Communities in Schools are sending staff members into local schools to combat absenteeism.
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Education Aspire Memphis plans to spin off into its own charter organization, separate from the California group that founded it
Aspire is spinning off its four Memphis schools into a new, independent charter school organization. The 1,600 students would officially transition at the beginning of the 2020-21 school year if the plan comes to fruition.
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September 2023
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Education Memphis’ Peabody Elementary closes for mold cleanup, forcing hundreds of students to relocate
Students at Peabody Elementary School will attend class at two other buildings while the school district works to eliminate mold from the 114-year-old structure.
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Education Memphis school board member Frank Johnson recovering from stroke
The former teacher joined the school board last October to represent District 7, which includes east Whitehaven, Oakhaven and Hickory Hill.
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Education New MSCS custodial contracts would give school staff more input
Under the proposal, which the school board will consider next week, the district would contract with four cleaning companies.
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Education Althea Greene remains MSCS board chair for second year
“I pray that my colleagues, that we will lead together,” Greene said Tuesday. “We will march together. We will disagree, but disagree together.”
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