Both of the new principals currently work for the district as assistant principals at other schools.

“Bob Shirey is the only employee that was here the day that Briarcrest opened its doors and is still here,” said Caron Swatley, Briarcrest president.

The proposed 4% tuition hike would raise $2.7 million a year for the University of Memphis; nearly 3% increase in annual fees would net more than $575,000. 

The YMCA needs lifeguards. The football-playing kids at PURE Academy need to learn how to swim. The two organizations hit on a creative way to solve both problems. And it’s already making quite a splash.

The passage rates at Hernando Hill Elementary and Lewisburg Elementary School were particularly high with success rates of 92.4% and 90.4%, respectively. 

The Arlington Community Schools budget includes a substantial raise in salaries for the coming fiscal year, an increase official say will make the starting salary for teachers the highest of the suburban districts.

She has done extensive research in the use of music to promote well-being and alleviate pain.

After a two-year tenure as principal at Arlington High, Shannon Abraham is returning to Bartlett City Schools as head of the district’s high school.

Based on an idea borne from the pandemic years, Arlington Middle School has opened an outdoor classroom, providing a different learning environment for students.

If the UT board of trustees also approves the college’s budget next month, all of UTHSC’s students would see a 2.9% tuition increase in the fall. 

“We cannot just wait, though, until students reach our doors as adults. We have to reach them earlier and younger; we cannot, however, do it alone.”

Memphians Deanie Parker and William C. Rhodes III will receive honorary doctor of humanities degrees.

School board candidates on the August ballot talk about MSCS superintendent Marie Feagins’ vision for the district.

Germantown Muncipal School District leaders will take their final review of their 2024-25 budget this month.

With the City of Memphis looking at a proposed 28% property-tax increase and some citizens calling for the government to cut the fat instead, The Daily Memphian reviewed the city’s proposed fiscal year 2025 budget.

The celebration was held on the 70th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board desegregation case ruling and featured an outdoor giveaway of children’s books for grades pre-K to sixth grade and up.

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.