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Memphis residents will get a chance to “reimagine” what school buildings and academic programs will look like – and essentially rework a facilities plan left by the former superintendent.
Superintendent Joris Ray said the district’s promise to allocate a 3% pay increase to all teachers and licensed school professionals in the Memphis district will go into effect next month and be retroactive to the beginning of the school year.
The U.S. Naval Academy instills every midshipman with a sense of accountability to each other. The Shelby County Schools would benefit if children were encouraged to work together as a goal-oriented team.
Shelby County Schools' CFO is resigning this week. Toni Williams will rejoin the district as interim CFO.
During her emotional, daylong testimony in her gender discrimination lawsuit against the district, Shirley Quinn described a system that did not encourage her to follow rules to prevent grade tampering.
The school board will vote on the district’s recommendation to close the school at its October meeting, as the district has to provide 30 days notice on such a vote.
A joint commitment to fund early education and prekindergarten services, including money for the first time from the city of Memphis, seeks to save thousands of prekindergarten seats that were in jeopardy when federal funding ended June 30.
Cornerstone Prep Denver’s student achievement is the highest of all 30 schools in the Achievement School District, the district of charter schools tasked with turning around Tennessee’s lowest-performing schools.
Fewer than 5% of Geeter students scored proficient or higher in English this past spring on the state’s annual exam known as TNReady. In math, 6% of students scored proficient or higher.
The Shelby County Schools district has not yet filed a report with the state on levels of lead in water sources at schools built prior to 1998. In Germantown Municipal School District, three schools found water sources that tested above the state’s safety threshold.
In 2014, teacher salaries in the Memphis district were sixth highest in the state, but three years later, teacher pay in Shelby County Schools has slipped to 11th. It was one of only two districts statewide to see the average salary decrease.
Chris Coleman and Bianca Delgado with Teach for America discuss how TFA is training passionate educators and education advocates across the country and gush with High Ground's Cole Bradley over Treadwell Elementary here in Memphis.
Superintendent Joris Ray said what he heard about Southwest Early College High School gave him “grave concern,” but stopped short of saying the district would investigate.
An ordinance that puts the minimum pay for Shelby County workers at $15 an hour was passed by the County Commission on final reading Monday, along with a resolution that asks Shelby County Schools to conduct a salary study for the people they employ at under $15 an hour.
The new rules mean tests will account for 40% of a high school student’s grade, classwork 35%, projects 10%, homework 10%, and class participation 5%. And it will be the same whether it’s an algebra class in Whitehaven or a biology class in Frayser.
TNReady tests are designed to assess every student’s true understanding of the material they’ve studied, not just memorized. The goal is to know how to help students advance their knowledge and skills, teachers raise their level of instruction, and districts improve their schools.
A three-part series from The Institute for Public Service Reporting at the University of Memphis explores the challenges and possible solutions to improving third-grade reading proficiency locally.
A new initiative to get hygiene and personal care products to lower income students kicked off on Friday at Kate Bond Middle School.
The district’s students did not make as much progress as other students across the state, earning Shelby County Schools the lowest score on the state’s 5-point growth scale.
Only 3.4% of high schoolers in the Achievement School District met the state’s proficiency standards on this year’s math and English exams, while 12.6% of elementary students reached that benchmark.
Miska Clay Bibbs will remain on the Shelby County Schools board after taking the TFA job. Keith Williams, executive director of the Memphis-Shelby County Education Association, wrote in a text message that Bibbs should resign.
Special Report: Memphis' Reading Test PART 1: Meeting goals for third-grade reading proficiency in Tennessee is a daunting task unless dramatic improvements occur in Shelby County, where the hurdles are high and the challenges complex. And in Memphis, a city where nearly four in five children in public schools aren't reading on grade level, the undertaking is monumental.
The Shelby County Commission Monday passed on second reading an ordinance calling for a $15 an hour minimum wage for county employees.
A basketball league, an all-male mentorship program and 'restorative conversations' when students make mistakes are part of the Bruce Elementary principal's philosophy of education.
During a recent orientation, newly hired teachers learned more about the Shelby County Schools focus on social and emotional learning.