Know Campus School? Innovative School District wants to scale it up
University Middle School opened in the fall of 2019 at 330 Fogelman Drive in the Orgel Educational Center on the University of Memphis campus. The high school followed in 2022. (Courtesy University of Memphis)
All day long, Sally Parish gets calls and emails from parents hoping she has room for one more student in the Innovative School District, the University of Memphis-run school system.
It becomes the first in the state July 1, and its name alone is part of the reason parents are persistent and hopeful.
“The closer you get to the beginning of school, the more anxious parents become with sudden school closures, both in the public and private sector,” Parish said.
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Jane Roberts
Jane Roberts has reported in Memphis for more than 20 years. As a senior member of The Daily Memphian staff, she was assigned to the medical beat during the COVID-19 pandemic. She also has done in-depth work on other medical issues facing our community, including shortages of specialists in local hospitals. She covered K-12 education here for years and later the region’s transportation sector, including Memphis International Airport and FedEx Corp.
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