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The WKNO Channel 10 program features a reporters’ roundtable discussion on a variety of topics, including passage of the first of three city ordinances out of the controversy over the Byhalia Connection crude oil pipeline project.
Statewide, there have been 4,933 student cases and 755 staff cases reported as of Friday afternoon.
Shelby County Schools is offering meals for students who are in quarantine due to COVID-19 exposure. Parents can pick up the meals each morning in a drive-thru at the schools.
SCS Superintendent Joris M. Ray and Deputy Superintendent Angela Whitelaw joined Behind the Headlines to discuss what the full return to school buildings looks like and what the district is doing to keep students safe.
Shelby County Schools reported 516 new COVID-19 cases among students and 69 among staff at the district’s public and charter schools.
Shelby County Schools reported 490 student cases among the district’s public and charter schools and 89 cases among staff.
Parents staged a protest at the SCS Board of Education to follow up on their concerns about the safety of their children and what they said was distasteful mistreatment in a meeting led by Deputy Superintendent John Barker.
The figures mean there have been 1,650 cases among students since the start of the school year and 246 among staff.
SCS and Nashville schools were remote for longer than all other districts. State leaders withdrew the flexibility for districts to keep all students at home, stressing the impact of “learning loss.”
The most recent data available is from Aug. 13-19, the second week of school.Related story:
Parents are expressing growing concerns about the safety of their children in schools. They want an option to send children back to school virtually.
A youth who died at Le Bonheur over the weekend has been identified as 16-year-old Westwood High student Azorean Tatum.
We’ve all seemingly decided that virtual instruction is a sub-optimal policy choice, and that classroom instruction is worth the additional risk.
Our schools: A two-front political battlefield our kids didn’t ask for and really don’t need right now. Education shouldn’t be conscription, especially in the service of others’ political ambitions.
SCS’ standardized testing data revealed the district’s weaknesses and gaps, widened by COVID-induced learning disruptions.
Newly released standardized test scores show a widening gap between Shelby County Schools and the rest of the state. Related story: Local suburban districts regress in TCAP scores
For the first time since March 2020, all Shelby County Schools students were expected to return to in-person classes amid rising COVID-19 cases.
Failed contract negotiations add to Head Start’s troubled local history, but advocates say that shouldn’t overshadow impressive pre-K advances. Related story: How child care centers reveal pre-K’s future in Shelby County
Early childhood education advocates say access to high-quality child care is the next goal for more than 40,000 children under age 4. Related story: What the SCS/Porter-Leath split means for the future of pre-K in Memphis
As Shelby County Schools students gear up for in-person school Monday, Aug. 9, the district is revving up a new fleet of buses.
Tennessee Speaker Cameron Sexton will ask Gov. Bill Lee for a special session if districts close or require masks. Shelby County Schools is requiring masks for students and staff.
As the start of the school year approaches, Shelby County Schools and surrounding suburban districts are releasing guidelines on how they’ll reopen safely, amid rising COVID-19 cases and uncertainty around the Delta variant.
State education commissioner Penny Schwinn visited an SCS Summer Learning Academy at Lowrance K-8 School.
Masks will be required when the coming SCS school year begins, but field trips, athletics and reopened playgrounds will come back again.
The two teachers’ unions in Memphis used to be one. But a battle over local control caused them to split.