Tennessee officials say local school boards and parents, not the state, should have the final say in whether students wear masks to school. 

The Shelby County Health Department amended Directive No. 24 to require face coverings for students and teachers in all K-12 schools, officials announced Friday.

The last major construction project at the school was more than 40 years ago.

The specialized school will offer students the opportunity to earn an associate degree. 

Private schools in the Memphis area are adopting various protocols for reopening with COVID-19 in mind. 

Haslam will also autograph copies of his new book.

Frayser Community Schools officials are hoping a new initiative will create a better atmosphere leading to higher academic performances this year when students fully resume in-person learning.

As Shelby County Schools students gear up for in-person school Monday, Aug. 9, the district is revving up a new fleet of buses. 

As the start of the school year approaches, Shelby County Schools and surrounding suburban districts are releasing guidelines on how they’ll reopen safely, amid rising COVID-19 cases and uncertainty around the Delta variant.

The sites are for future schools, looking 15 to 20 years down the road, Superintendent Ted Horrell said. 

State education commissioner Penny Schwinn visited an SCS Summer Learning Academy at Lowrance K-8 School.

Masks will be required when the coming SCS school year begins, but field trips, athletics and reopened playgrounds will come back again. 

The university raised more than $35 million, including a record of $26.5 million for academic support when unemployment was at record highs and the campus mostly was quiet.

In addition to helping with back-to-school paperwork for kids, adults can get copies of birth certificates, and free COVID shots from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. July 17 at the health department.

The two teachers’ unions in Memphis used to be one. But a battle over local control caused them to split.

The facility at the University of Memphis opened June 30 with a variety of amenities for students. 

The Lakeland School System is on track to open the district’s first high school, filling a void as the only one of the six suburban systems without one.

Perea Preschool is no longer connected with Church Health, instead being absorbed into Perea Elementary School, as of July 1.

The pandemic curbed the speed of pilot departures in the industry, but officials see a shortfall ahead as commercial pilots retire.

Shelby County Schools Superintendent Joris Ray announced 38 leadership positions in the district are being filled, including 24 new principals.

Jeff Cohran brings experience of world tours and years in the music industry with pop star Janelle Monáe to the faculty at the University of Memphis.

The district voted to approve a $750,000 contract for Educational Epiphany, a company whose proposed contract teachers protested earlier this year. 

Students and staff have been notified; campus leaders will help those who have difficulty getting access.

The COVID-19 pandemic reduced some revenue streams to a trickle at four-year colleges and universities. But coming out of the pandemic, administrators believe they are smarter and more efficient. “Really, what the pandemic did is it accelerated the pace of change,” said U of M President M. David Rudd.