Under the third-grade retention law, students who don’t score proficiently on the English Language Arts portion of their TCAP test are eligible to be held back unless they meet certain conditions.
The 2022 Collierville Balloon Festival distributed $150,000 to local education efforts. The event is scheduled to return and once again use its proceeds to benefit the same cause.
Memphis-Shelby County Schools has contended that allowing school security staff to use pepper spray against students to break up fights is generally safe, but some still don’t agree with the practice.
Board members discussed some details for a new high school, which comes as a result of Memphis-Shelby County Schools’ agreement to relinquish ownership of the Germantown namesake schools.
Project RESTORE, funded through a $422,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice, aims to train students in nonviolent conflict resolution techniques.
Under the current version of the policy, school resource officers are permitted to use “physical, mechanical and chemical measures” only when it is “necessary to ensure the safety, security, and welfare of district students, employees and visitors.”
The municipal school district and Bartlett Police Department are working with the Law Enforcement Against Drugs & Violence (L.E.A.D.) program, a nationwide nonprofit focused on helping students understand the dangers of drugs and violence.
Collierville High School is expanding its offerings and students will learn to fly with a new wing.
One of the courses, African American Literature, will review literary contributions of African Americans from the early 1600s through the modern United States.
East High School audio-visual students have a new, fully functional studio space where they can get hands-on instruction in broadcasting.
The district’s board of education voted unanimously at its business meeting Tuesday night to hire Hazard, Young, Attea, and Associates to conduct the search. ‘It gives a lot of people pause:’ MSCS board responds to conflict of interest concernRelated story:
MSCS board members sound off on Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti’s opinion suggesting Keith Williams may have a conflict of interest serving both on the district board and as head of one of its two teacher unions.
Student musicians backed the legendary singer at the grand opening gala for the Scheidt Family Performing Arts Center at the University of Memphis.
Keith Williams, who represents District 6, also serves as executive director of the Memphis-Shelby County Education Association, the oldest of the district’s two teacher unions.
Construction begins this winter where the old campus gym sat. Buckman Hall will be torn down in 2024 for the second phase of the campaign.
Arlington, Bartlett, Collierville, Germantown and Lakeland students will return to school Friday as the Memphis area begins to thaw out. Millington Municipal Schools, Memphis-Shelby County Schools and DeSoto County Schools will remain closed.
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Memphis-Shelby County Schools and seven suburban districts announced canceled classes Thursday because of continued icy conditions.
Despite coming from different professional worlds, from different cities and even different countries, both wound up as teachers at Getwell Elementary in Parkway Village.
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Earlier Saturday, the U of M had announced its campus would close “until further notice.”
Memphis-Shelby County Schools and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center announced schedule alterations for Friday, Jan. 27.
The educational programs MBG offers include on-site classes for students as well as in-school visits. Both have been blooming as schools have been returning to more normal routines.
The move was made in light of “unexpected construction delays” in the repair of a portion of the school library’s ceiling that collapsed back in August.
“This is a true game-changer not only for the schools that will be the first to implement this strategy but serves as a much-needed resource for families and communities.”