Assistant professor Shana Stoddard is helping students design antiviral compounds for COVID-19, raising the bar for what remote learning can be.

Shelby County Schools, for instance, is budgeted this academic year to receive $308 million in federal funds, more than a fifth of the district’s revenues.

After weeks of planning and device distributions, Shelby County Schools rings the bell for the first day of virtual school and will stay that way until further notice.

Tennessee Department of Education Commissioner Penny Schwinn could face a no-confidence vote from lawmakers during September meetings if she doesn't say what they want to hear.

The Office of Planning & Development says the zoning on Deloach prohibits the proposed development totaling 135 units and 529 bedrooms. But the U of M contends it is exempt from zoning regulations.

Federal grants on campus are up 50% and now account for more than 75% of the university's outside research funding.

As storms approach the city, SCS has rescheduled student device distributions for Saturday and Sunday, officials said.

University of Memphis campus workers said Thursday they don't feel safe on campus and criticized the administration for planning to bring all students back to campus Sept. 17.

The state will pay day care centers to care for small children and supervise school-age children of essential workers who are employees at airports, medical facilities, schools, restaurants, grocery stores, government agencies and construction companies. 

As Germantown leaders consider the challenges they could face with statewide testing, the suburb's Board of Education adopted its stance on the matter.

Shortfall on campus includes investments leaders have made in students while at the same time, being aware that it may have to lay off staff and administrators. 

Schools have responsibility to contact people who may have come in contact with the virus on school property. It must happen within 12 hours. 

Dr. Betty Harville was the first Black female optometrist in Tennessee and first Black woman in the U.S. to become a full-time optometry school professor.

Shelby County Schools students will be attending school remotely from home this fall, but the basic rules of school will still apply, with penalties for tardiness, truancy and dress code violations.

Republican state Rep. Tom Leatherwood of Arlington believes schools will have a hard time staying open this year because of quarantine rules and the impact of one person testing positive for COVID-19.

Career in education spanned more than half a century in the classroom, school and nonprofit leadership and eventually reaching the highest level of state government.

Gov. Bill Lee expects the voucher rollout, which was halted when a Nashville judge overturned the 2019 law in May, will be resurrected in 2021. The Tennessee Court of Appeals is expected to rule this fall on the state’s appeal.

Shelby County Schools will have more than 95,000 students online simultaneously when classes begin Aug. 31, Superintendent Joris Ray said. "We're going to learn from our mistakes and we're going to get better and better each and every day."

Stakeholders in the Collierville community are analyzing data specific to the suburban district. The data evaluation team will look at various affects the pandemic has on the suburban schools and 

Three Shelby County Health Department Employees toured Collierville Schools Tuesday.

The Shelby County Health Department is not tracking the number of COVID-19 cases in the schools nor is it requiring schools to report cases. 

Related: Like Shelby County, COVID-19 reporting among schools statewide is random

School districts throughout the state are taking different approaches to reporting COVID-19 cases. Some are prepared to notify parents and the public about outbreaks, while others are only notifying the parents of children who may have come into contact with a positive case.

Four suburban school districts opened for a new academic year Monday morning like none they have ever encountered.

Feeling heat from state lawmakers, parents and school districts, the Lee Administration is reversing a massive plan for school districts to conduct “welfare checks” on every child in the state because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The threshold is dramatically higher than other cities across the nation. New York City’s mayor has said school buildings must shutter if the positivity rate exceeds 3%, and other school districts have vowed to limit in-person learning when the rate hits 5%.