Last month,Dr. Daniel Chatham, a member of the board since his 2022 election, announced his intention to resign with about two years remain in his term.

Some 60% of Tennessee third-grade students scored below proficiency in English language arts on 2024 state tests. Fewer than 1% of them were retained under the state’s reading and retention law.

Tennessee needs to spend about $9.8 billion on repairs, upgrades, or construction to keep its K-12 public school buildings safe and conducive to learning, according to a new state report.

At Hawkins Mill Elementary, chronic absenteeism plummeted. And at Trezevant High, graduation rates climbed closer to the district average. Both had been among Tennessee’s bottom 5% for over a decade.

Amy Eoff will end her time on the Germantown Board of Education this week. She was elected in 2016 and reelected in 2020.

District officials said the money is needed to keep the project on track as it recalculates next steps for the stalled Cordova high school.

Daniel Chatham was elected in 2022. The Board of Mayor and Aldermen is responsible for appointing an individual to finish the unexpired term.

“We’ve got to face the reality,” Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris said. “The (Cordova) project may not be dead permanently, but it’s suffered a pretty big death blow.”

As of last year, the University of Memphis’ dual-enrollment program is the largest in the state, serving nearly 3,000 teens in 60 schools in Shelby County.

Lee called it “a great idea” to dismantle the agency, which was created under a 1979 federal law during President Jimmy Carter’s administration.

“It’s a one-time bonus that’s basically asking us to sell out our public schools,” said Liz Marable, a longtime Memphis educator who is currently president of the United Education Association of Shelby County. “But we are not for sale.”

Organizers of the More for Memphis plan are pitching elected officials on a new board to assign more than $1 billion in funding to efforts they say would solve the city’s economic mobility problem.

The Dietz family is requesting a judge allow their son, who has multiple disabilities, to return to school with the dog.

With students out of class and teachers participating in in-service training, police simulated gunfire to help workers understand the sounds of gunshots in buildings.

Christian Brothers University eliminated 12 vacant positions, plus eight part-time and full-time nonfaculty roles, and some school leaders have taken pay cuts in an effort to regain solid financial footing after being placed on probation.

The governor said he looks forward to delivering on his promise for more education choices for parents.

The analysis has national implications for ongoing reforms aimed at making swift and dramatic improvement to persistently low-performing schools.

LeMoyne-Owen’s new permanent president wanted a mascot to enhance the school’s culture. 

Creating the superintendent evaluation rubric was a contentious process that revealed rifts among school board members and Marie Feagins, who has led the district for the last seven months.

Ryan Strain won’t be chairman next year on the Germantown Board of Education, but his seat in Position 1 is undoubtedly secure.

Avron B. Fogelman’s gift is the single largest gift to the business college and among the largest to the campus as a whole.

Although no MSCS schools are being used as voting sites this year, MSCS schools are still closed for students Tuesday. 

More than 80% of Memphis-Shelby County Schools’ eligible seniors earned their diplomas for the 2023-24 school year.

Julian Cross is the second Memphis-Shelby County Schools staffer to depart the Office of the Superintendent this month.

Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson told school board members the governor is planning a “substantial” increase for public education funding in 2025 but didn’t specify how much or for what.