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    Tennessee pauses bill targeting right to education despite immigration status

    The move diminishes the chances for the bill to pass this year as lawmakers prepare for a likely adjournment this week.

    By The Associated Press April 21, 2025
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    MSCS could sell Bayer Building, demolish several vacant schools

    Former Superintendent Marie Feagins debuted the real estate plan in December weeks before school board chair Joyce Dorse Coleman first called for her ouster. Progress appears to have continued through the leadership tumult.

    By Laura Testino April 18, 2025
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    CBU hit in purge of foreign students

    As international students at CBU and the U of M, like others across the country, have their visas revoked, the issue is setting up new quandaries for college administrators. 

    By Jane Roberts April 20, 2025
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    5 U of M students lose visas; told to leave country

    As college enrollments have dwindled in the United States, many colleges have stepped up international recruiting to close the gap. 

    By Jane Roberts April 30, 2025
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    Last-minute updates move MSCS takeover proposals toward compromise

    Rep. Mark White, R-Memphis, and Sen. Brent Taylor, R- Eads, don’t yet agree on the role of a new appointed board. Here’s what they’ve offered in new proposals aimed at a compromise.

    By Laura Testino April 17, 2025
  • Millington

    Millington girls basketball coach placed on leave

    A Millington Central Middle High School basketball coach is on unpaid leave as part of an investigaiton.

    By Abigail Warren April 16, 2025
  • Music

    Gallery: NLE Choppa reads his new book to Porter-Leath students

    Potts has 13 platinum singles and one platinum album.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff April 16, 2025
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    Lakeland board displeased with state’s lack of special education pre-K funding

    “Special education preschool students throughout Tennessee do not get much funding. It’s almost a totally unfunded mandate,” Lakeland School System board member and legislative liaison Michelle Childs said.

    By Michael Waddell April 16, 2025
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    New federal directive may punch $55M hole in MSCS plans

    The U.S. Department of Education’s changed rules for remaining pandemic funds have thrown some funding for Memphis-Shelby County Schools building projects in limbo. 

    By Laura Testino April 10, 2025
  • Education

    Tom Nenon guided U of M as philosopher, mentor and provost

    “I mean, Tom was the kind of person that made a university a community,” said former university president M. David Rudd of Tom Nenon, who died Friday, April 4, of cancer. 

    By Jane Roberts April 14, 2025
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    Second U of M Campus School to open but already full

    The soon-to-be former St. George’s Memphis has a waiting list — proof of high interest in the fledgling K-12 University Schools district, which has a 10-year goal of enrolling 5,000 students.

    By Laura Testino April 08, 2025
  • Education

    MSCS’ Richmond not bound by same ethics clause Feagins was

    Memphis-Shelby County Schools board members formalized a contract with Interim Superintendent Roderick Richmond two months after appointing him to replace ousted Superintendent Marie Feagins.

    By Laura Testino April 03, 2025
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    Schools adjust schedules in anticipation of ‘generational flooding’

    Some school districts have altered scheduling due to looming threats of severe weather. 

    By Abigail Warren April 02, 2025
  • Education

    New Frayser high groundbreaking a milestone for MSCS facility plan

    “This is the rebuild and transformation of Frayser, but this is also a moment, a forerunner, of things to come,” said Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris, who first proposed building the school five years ago.

    By Laura Testino April 04, 2025
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    How MSCS’ interim leader wants to change the district

    After an audit highlighted issues with Memphis-Shelby County Schools, interim Superintendent Roderick Richmond has plans to transform the district, starting with reorganization. Board members are set to take up his interim contract Wednesday, April 2. 

    By Laura Testino April 01, 2025
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    Other school districts could be snared in state’s MSCS takeover plans

    The Senate proposal would expand Tennessee’s voucher program to some rural and poor school districts, whether state officials believe other takeover measures are necessary or not.

    By Laura Testino March 28, 2025
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    Germantown teachers will be getting bonuses

    The state-funded bonuses were part of the controversial school-voucher legislation.

    By Abigail Warren March 28, 2025
  • State Government

    School districts could deny enrollment to immigrant children if bill passes

    The bill passed narrowly in an 11-7 vote, with three Republicans, including Memphis Republican Mark White voting against it alongside all four of the committee’s Democrats.

    By Benjamin Smith March 27, 2025
  • Education

    State Comptroller set to pay $3 million for MSCS audit

    The money to hire and pay an accounting firm to conduct the audit is part of Gov. Bill Lee’s amended budget proposal.

    By Bill Dries March 26, 2025
  • Shelby County

    County Commission may attempt to block state schools takeover

    “If we do nothing then we are really leaving ourselves at the will of the state,” said Commissioner Shante Avant. 

    By Bill Dries March 26, 2025
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    New Hernando High to welcome first students in July

    Students will start filling the halls of the new Hernando High in late summer, providing relief to other schools in the DeSoto County school district.

    By Toni Lepeska March 26, 2025
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    Memphis Oral School expands footprint, looks to future goals

    Last week, the school announced it is purchasing the Kingsway Christian Church’s property at 7887 Poplar Ave. next door to the hearing center.

    By Abigail Warren March 26, 2025
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    Collierville Schools buys property with eye toward future

    The construction of a new school is not in Collierville’s immediate plans. Growth will dictate when the new campus is needed.

    By Abigail Warren March 26, 2025
  • Education

    Why MSCS interim superintendent ‘would hate to see’ Tennessee takeover

    Memphis-Shelby County Schools head Roderick Richmond denounced a state takeover proposal that would override authority of the elected board. 

    By Laura Testino March 20, 2025
  • Downtown

    Protesters honored 65 years after Cossitt Library sit-ins

    “It was a movement that reshaped our city and strengthened the legacy of our beloved institution,” said Christopher Davis, president of LeMoyne-Owen College.

    By Redding Jackson March 20, 2025

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