Memphis-based International Paper Co. has donated $1 million to the River City Partnership, a collaboration between the University of Memphis, Shelby County Schools and the Achievement School District.

The University of Memphis had the lowest tuition and fee increases among Tennessee colleges and universities over the past five years, the university reported Tuesday.

As Shelby County Schools Superintendent Dorsey Hopson prepares to make his exit at year's end, another urban education leader will take the reins of a new partnership between Memphis’ public school district and its public university.

Sources report that Superintendent Dorsey Hopson will resign after five years of leading Shelby County Schools. Rumors of Hopson’s departure have been flying for months.

With finances in good shape, key positions filled and building projects reshaping the Memphis campus, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center is wrapping up a strong 2018 and looks toward long-term major improvements such as a Biotech Research Park.

Tennessee Education Commissioner Candice McQueen will leave her post in January to take a job as CEO of a nonprofit organization that helps schools attract and keep top-notch teachers.

With nine new charter schools opening in Memphis next year and another seven closing due to low performance, local education leaders say charters create accessibility to choices – but also are accountable for meeting standards.

About 30 students walked out of Memphis Academy of Health Sciences High School on Tuesday, Nov. 6, three months after school administrators fired the principal, and days after firing a beloved teacher.

Reginald Williams was set to retire as principal of a Memphis charter school at the end of the school year. Instead, he was fired just days into the new school year, shortly after state test results showed the school’s scores had plummeted.

Facing a roughly $2 million operating deficit and lagging academic progress, a California-based charter organization that runs four schools in Memphis is reconsidering its future in the city – even floating the possibility of pulling out of the area altogether.

At first, longtime Memphis City Councilwoman Janis Fullilove had no desire to be Shelby County Juvenile Court clerk, much less consider entering the race.

Memphis University School is marking the 125th anniversary of its founding with steady commitment to building on its legacy of cultivating leaders instrumental to the city’s progress.

With public schools, municipal schools and charter schools, Memphis-area private schools are adjusting the way they interact with prospective student families to make sure they stand out in a competitive market.

Suburban school districts here finished at the top of Tennessee’s ACT scores, while Shelby County Schools came in near the bottom but is seeing improvement among its economically disadvantaged students and has four high schools above the state average of 20.2, its best score ever.

Tennessee’s average ACT score ticked up slightly this year, again landing above 20 and defying national trends on the college entrance exam, according to results released on Wednesday.

The University of Memphis will receive $500,000 from a FedEx Express scholarship grant to support a newfound commercial aviation degree program.

Gov. Bill Haslam, coming off a listening tour for the embattled TNReady test, is proposing a litany of changes for the assessment, including spending to put laptops in the hands of every Tennessee student.

When president Tracy D. Hall heard confidence was lacking in Southwest Tennessee Community College, she did not rely on the success stories of her students, she commissioned a study to prove it.

The lyrics to “We are the World” were a bit of a stretch for students at A.B. Hill Elementary School. But “SpongeBob SquarePants” was a cross-generational hit during a celebration Monday for their move from a Level 1 to the top Level 5 for student academic growth in a single year.

The battle to replace term-limited Gov. Bill Haslam has consumed the spotlight for Tennessee’s education-minded voters, but more than a hundred legislative races will decide who the new governor will work with on school policy for the next few years.

Alexis Singleton is one of thousands of Tennessee teachers in their early years of teaching. She’s one of 14 new teachers at her Memphis elementary school, and she’s seen firsthand the effect high teacher turnover can have on students.

Memphis teachers will soon have the opportunity to change compensation, work hours, health benefits, and how they teach if they vote to negotiate a new agreement with Shelby County Schools.

New Memphis has launched its first Educators of Excellence Awards this year and announced this week the five local educators who are the inaugural 2018 honorees.

Hutchison School and Girl Scouts Heart of the South joined forces Saturday to host Strong GIRL Fest, an interactive community event to celebrate and empower girls of all ages.

A few yards across from the parking lot of an all-boys Memphis school lies a small, tree-lined courtyard, where a class of eighth-graders studies a large historical marker.