LaNerra Gray lost her scholarships, then her mother, but nothing was going to keep her from earning a teaching degree.

MSCS is asking the county for more than $200 million in funding for school buildings, both to address maintenance needs at existing schools and to support construction of two new high schools.

Chris Englert was principal/president at CBHS for nearly three decades. He left in 2019 to take another assignment.

Collierville Schools’ proposed $137.2 million budget highlights its appreciation for the district’s teachers and includes holiday bonuses.

MSCS says it is investing an additional $28.4 million toward teacher salaries in the 2024-25 fiscal year.

“You’ll have a job; it just may not be the role or title that you have right now,” MSCS Superintendent Feagins told staffers during a meeting.

Local education officials, from both private and public schools, continue to express skepticism about the “armed teachers” law. 

With help from state funds, Bartlett’s school district will give teachers an increase in pay for the coming fiscal year.

Scott Hauss, a graduate of the University of Memphis, spent more than three decades in senior management in the banking industry and has been involved with ECS for more than 20 years, including serving as a member of the ECS Board of Trustees for 14 years.

“These seasoned educators, students, and community and business leaders will share their journeys and provide sharp recommendations for solutions,” Memphis-Shelby County Schools Superintendent Marie Feagins said.

School leaders respond to a bill that could allow Tennessee teachers to carry guns on campus.

Carly Fair, who has children in Tennessee public schools, was a lobbyist at the state Capitol for families like hers who have a fourth-grade child at risk of being held back under a 2021 reading law.

Members of the university’s board of trustees will serve as the local board of education.

The national trend of chronic absenteeism trickles down to the Shelby County suburbs. District-wide numbers are up post-pandemic.

Keith Williams, the district’s assistant superintendent of operations, said the updated dress code concerns discrepancies between current fashion trends and expectations for attire within the educational environment. 

Tenn. Gov. Bill Lee campaigned on vouchers in both 2018 and 2022, but the bill’s chances of becoming law appeared in jeopardy last week. Lawmakers questioned the cost, the effect on private schools and the changing nature of the legislation.

U.S. Rep. David Kustoff, R-Germantown, is also running unopposed in his August primary after the state GOP kicked perennial contender George Flinn out of the primary.

For the 2022-23 school year, 28.52% of DeSoto County students were chronically absent.

Memphis-Shelby County Schools saw the percentage of its students considered “chronically absent” jump from 18.4% in the school year before the COVID-19 pandemic to 28.9% in the school year after the pandemic.

The percentage of students who are chronically absent from schools jumped dramatically in Memphis from the 2018-19 school year to the 2022-23 school year. It’s a national trend that’s also seen in the area’s suburban schools.

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The university’s staff was notified Friday afternoon after several days of rumors.

A number of application workshops have popped up in the wake of the U.S. Department of Education’s 2024-2025 FAFSA relaunch earlier this year.

This is the first principal appointment Superintendent Russell Dyer made since assuming his duties a month ago.

Even with the budget approved in the House and Senate, lawmakers still remained divided on whether they’ll advance any proposal to spend vastly more public money to send students to private schools throughout the state.

All DeSoto County graduations will be held in mid-May at the Landers Center.