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An attorney representing former Memphis-Shelby County Schools Superintendent Marie Feagins in a lawsuit challenging her ouster from the district has withdrawn from the case, court documents show.
Families at Lucy Elementary have known a change was coming. But MSCS officials recently proposed giving the school to Millington this summer, a year early.
The Memphis teenager was shot and injured during the school day in a park adjacent to Overton High School in East Memphis, according to police and the school system.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn, the Tennessee Republican running for governor, is proposing bipartisan legislation that would give Memphis additional law enforcement resources and funding for technology to combat cargo theft.
MSCS board members directed the district to expand bus access to immigrant students who may be staying home from school to avoid interactions with the Memphis Safe Task Force.
The changes could be an example of what’s to come for other families as Memphis-Shelby County Schools makes plans to close, consolidate, repurpose and build new campuses.
“I’d love to have the permanent superintendent role,” interim Memphis school Superintendent Roderick Richmond said during a recent interview on WKNO-TV Channel 10’s “Behind The Headlines.”
They are among about 100 identified as “priority schools” by the Tennessee State Board of Education. Possible interventions can include state-mandated closure, conversion to a charter school, or firing and rehiring staff.
Lauren Rogers, head of the Upper School at St. Mary’s said the school has a “moral obligation” to staunch the widening gender gap in STEM education.
“I heard my son scream,” a Memphis mother said in an interview with The Daily Memphian. School staff told her that they handcuffed her child for their own safety: “I was like, ‘Over a 7-year-old?’”
The change to the 2026-27 applications will offer insight about the new vouchers that the state awards.
Tennessee awarded dozens of Shelby County schools “reward” status, a credential for top academic performance. See if your school made the list.
A group in Tennessee, including two parents in Shelby County, allege that the state’s education voucher expansion “diverts state funding to private schools statewide that are by definition not part of the system of free public schools.”
Richmond is just over halfway through his 18-month interim superintendent contract, which ends July 31. Absent from the school board’s discussions about his evaluation, however, were comments about future permanent leadership of the district.
The Memphis-Shelby County Schools board is formally mulling a lawsuit about the “threat to the lawful function and democratic integrity” caused by new state and county actions that cut short terms for five members.
Shelby County Commissioners’ enactment of the new state law is an “imminent threat to the lawful function and democratic integrity” of the board and district, according to a resolution sponsored by board Vice Chair Joyce Dorse Coleman.
The new, one-year pilot program is effective this school year and open to certain 3- and 4-year-old patients at the Memphis children’s hospital.
MSCS campuses need more than $1 billion in the next decade. A committee suggested funding and other ideas on how to approach closing, repurposing or consolidating buildings.
As child-gunshot wounds make a meaningful decline in Memphis, students are learning about gun safety at school.
If the district hits this year’s chronic absenteeism goal, it would mark the first reduction in the rate of chronically absent students since the pandemic, according to state data and district estimates.
“I saw lines that I’ve never seen in the 7 years that I’ve been here,” the Shelby County clerk said.
In a court hearing, Shelby County Circuit Judge Chris Frulla urged attorneys for Marie Feagins and the school district to move quickly during discovery so he could set a trial date.
The school consolidations would also impact about 60 school-level jobs.
Voters will have a say in naming the new high school, which will open in 2027. A mix of old and new names are on the ballot.
As the Deputy Chief of Information Technology, Joe Oakley has overseen the launch and use of the police department’s Real-Time Crime Center camera surveillance systems, as well as the department’s data collection. It was not immediately clear Thursday who would take over his duties.