The CDC said 6 feet should still be maintained in common areas, such as school lobbies, and when masks can’t be worn, such as when eating.

Commencement ceremonies for both classes will be Saturday, May 15 at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium.

The university said the strain stayed within the athletic department and did not bleed into the broader campus or Memphis community.

University of Memphis President M. David Rudd announced Wednesday, March 10, that this year would be his last year in the position. 

Germantown Municipal School District leaders plan for high school students to remain on the hybrid schedule. However, next year students likely will return to in-person learning five days per week.

Superintendent says 65% to 70% of the district’s employees have been vaccinated.

The course to become a certified nurse-midwife is three years for full-time students; part-time students can finish in four years.

Suburban superintendents are wary over a plan that would hold back third-grade students based on TNReady data. The law is supposed to take effect in 2023.

Hass will remain president of Rhodes through mid-August.

Freedom Preparatory Academy charter schools will re-open their school buildings, starting with kindergarten and first- graders, Monday, March 8.

Monday was the first day of in-person classes for Shelby County Schools.

Students from Grace-St. Luke’s Episcopal School reached out to places where they wanted to work to land three-day internships. 

The Teacher’s Discipline Act would create a uniform referral process allowing teachers to petition for removal of a student who repeatedly or substantially interferes with classroom learning.

SCS teachers are preparing to be joined in their classrooms by students for the first time in nearly a year. 

Joris Ray said he still supports the proposal to spend $5.6 million next school year on Educational Epiphany’s teacher training and take-home literacy flashcards for Memphis students, but he pulled a vote on the contract from this week’s school board meeting agenda.

Donors send food and water to LeMoyne-Owen College after freezing temperatures and water system issues in the city.

Principal Barton Thorne called it “shocking and disappointing” to be removed for speaking to students about the First Amendment.

Collierville Virtual Academy – its 100% virtual learning method – could be the district’s 10th school.

Despite Tuesday’s news the Shelby County Health Department will no longer distribute COVID-19 vaccines, Arlington Community Schools doesn’t anticipate any problems for area school employees scheduled to receive their shots on Friday at the suburb’s high school.

Shelby County Schools teachers received vaccines beginning Wednesday, just days before their students return to classrooms March 1. 

Collierville Schools decided it will not review its Opportunity Academy about 24 hours before district staff was supposed to review policy around it.

Hutchison’s students and families wanted to be back in class despite the pandemic; the school had to ensure it was possible to do it safely. 

While some states seek to cancel student testing this spring as the pandemic grinds on, Tennessee isn’t wavering in its plan to give tests in person to most of its nearly 1 million students.

School superintendents and local public health officials may lose some of their power under a bill that passed by a party-line vote in the Tennessee Senate Monday, Feb. 22.

Just before schools are set to open next week, more than 6,000 Shelby County Schools employees will receive their first doses of a COVID-19 vaccine.