There are 14 article(s) tagged Dr. Joris Ray:

• July 2022

  • MSCS applauds ‘unprecedented gains’ despite low scores

    Memphis-Shelby County Schools leaders put a positive spin on TCAP numbers released by the state Wednesday, July 6, saying they represent “unprecedented gains.”

    Related story:

    MSCS students making progress but TCAP scores are still low, data shows

    By Aarron Fleming July 07, 2022

• March 2021

  • Pandemic reveals concurrent realities of urban, suburban students

    When Shelby County Schools students entered their school buildings this month, many did so for the first time in about a year. But children attending smaller suburban municipal districts had been back for months.

    By Daja E. Henry March 23, 2021

  • SCS students return to classrooms for first time in a year

    Monday was the first day of in-person classes for Shelby County Schools.

    By Daja E. Henry March 01, 2021

• February 2021

  • Emotions mixed as SCS students head back to buildings

    SCS teachers are preparing to be joined in their classrooms by students for the first time in nearly a year. 

    By Daja E. Henry February 28, 2021

  • SCS teachers get vaccinated before return to in-person classes

    Shelby County Schools teachers received vaccines beginning Wednesday, just days before their students return to classrooms March 1. 

    By Daja E. Henry February 24, 2021

  • Tennessee Senate passes bill allowing governor to force schools open

    School superintendents and local public health officials may lose some of their power under a bill that passed by a party-line vote in the Tennessee Senate Monday, Feb. 22.

    By Ian Round February 22, 2021

  • SCS Superintendent Joris Ray receives vaccine alongside teachers

    When Shelby County Schools teachers got vaccinated after a surprise last-minute availability, Superintendent Joris Ray “took the opportunity to stand with” them.

    By Daja E. Henry February 17, 2021

• November 2020

  • Will there be SCS basketball season? Coaches say they have gotten no word

    SCS programs remain on hold while others in Shelby County and around the state have started practicing and playing. 

    By John Varlas November 18, 2020

• September 2020

  • SCS fall athletes denied face-to-face talk with superintendent

    But third attempt to speak with Joris Ray ends in only despair and more frustration.

    By John Varlas September 24, 2020

  • Calkins: Shelby County athletes have every right to be ticked

    Shelby County athletes are right to ask why everyone else can play sports when they cannot. The honest answer to that question reflects badly on us all. 

    By Geoff Calkins September 16, 2020

  • What they’re saying about the SCS decision to ax fall sports season

    A call has gone out for a protest at the Shelby County Schools Board of Education on Wednesday morning.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff September 16, 2020

  • Players, parents frustrated over decision to shut down SCS fall sports season

    Shelby County Schools superintendent Joris Ray announced Tuesday that he is postponing all fall sports in the district “until further notice.”

    By John Varlas September 16, 2020

• August 2020

  • Opinion: Shelby County Schools using what we learned in summer school

    Thanks to the more than 3,100 students and their teachers who completed our first virtual summer school, we have a rich source of pilot-test information about how to do virtual learning in Shelby County.

    By Joris Ray August 28, 2020

  • TSSAA responds to SCS superintendent’s charges regarding fall sports

    The state governing board for high school athletics asserted that its plan to return to fall sports was safe.

    By John Varlas August 26, 2020