There are 4 articles by Sarah Carpenter :

• October 2025

  • Opinion

    Opinion: Mayor Harris isn’t listening to Memphis families about MSCS

    “Instead of waiting for the school board election, we demand an immediate, concrete commitment to fix our schools and restore public trust.”

    By Sarah Carpenter October 19, 2025

• September 2025

  • Opinion

    Opinion: Parents want accountability at MSCS. Students deserve it

    “If the ASD was a ‘failed experiment,’ then what do we call decades of schools where almost no child can read?” 

    By Sarah Carpenter September 29, 2025

• March 2025

  • Guest Columnists

    Guest column: What Memphis can learn from Houston’s school turnaround

    “What we saw was inspiring — and it should serve as a roadmap for what’s possible here in Memphis, regardless if that’s through our local board of education or through state intervention.”

    By Mark Sturgis, Sarah Carpenter, Danny Song, Dianechia Fields March 06, 2025

• February 2019

  • Guest Columnists

    Let’s help a whole city of kids

    People talk about school choice. But school choice doesn’t truly exist if parents don’t have access to good schools. There is a solution that can help: unified enrollment.

    By Sarah Carpenter February 06, 2019