Memphis-area school systems are releasing students early due to hazardous weather conditions predicted for this afternoon. 

As Germantown and Memphis-Shelby County School leaders debate the ownership and operation of three schools within Germantown city limits, they differ on a 2013 settlement’s role in the matter.

Junior Achievement of Memphis and the Mid-South took local educators on a tour of entrepreneurship hubs in Memphis Wednesday, March 23, to expand their knowledge on centers of opportunity for future graduates.

Kingsbury teachers were told Wednesday, March 23, that all their jobs would be posted as open. 

“I know it’s crazy. I understand that. But these kids can’t wait for the war to end,” said Dr. William Novick.

Tennessee senators delayed action on a bill impacting Germantown’s namesake schools. The bill will go before a house committee later this week.

Charles Everett, a Tennessee PTA leader and co-founder of Uplift Westwood, is the new District 6 Memphis-Shelby County Schools board member. 

Tennessee senators will vote on legislation affecting Germantown’s namesake schools next week. If the legislation becomes law, there is still much work on the local level.

M. David Rudd, whose presidency officially ends this month, is a Gulf War veteran and licensed psychologist.

Abby Parrill-Baker will serve as U of M’s interim provost.

A bill sending ownership and operation of Germantown Elementary, Germantown Middle and Germantown High schools from Memphis-Shelby County Schools to Germantown Schools passed the state’s Senate Education Committee Wednesday.

The Lakeland School System will soon move its offices out of City Hall and occupy a renovated house near the Lakeland Prep campus.

“The history of this institution is pivotal to the Black history of Memphis,” Michaela Thomas, a graduating senior who serves as the current Miss LeMoyne-Owen College, said of Memphis’ only HBCU.

Junior Jaylah Sheree Whittaker and senior Amelia Maria Wood anticipate continuing to write books after their first accomplishments.

Junior Achievement of Memphis and the Mid-South built a city that models all the careers that students can aspire to have as adults, and they run the city during a five-hour simulation.

The Shelby County will commission fill the vacancy at its March 21 meeting. Most of those who applied for the appointment plan to run for a full four-year term in the August elections.

Legislation that would transfer ownership of Germantown’s namesake schools from MSCS to the suburb is under consideration again by state lawmakers.

Bill sponsored by G.A. Hardaway recognizes Black first-graders who integrated four Memphis schools in 1961 as ‘young civil rights leaders.’

Some parents speaking at a hearing in Nashville alleged librarians are helping ‘groom’ children to become desensitized to sexual abuse and pornography.

The Tennessee Investment in Student Achievement bill would increase funding for schools without raising taxes, Education Commissioner Penny Schwinn says.

In his third State of the District address, Memphis-Shelby County Schools Superintendent Joris Ray announced higher teacher compensation and unveiled a new logo for the district, as well. 

Dr. Peter Buckley’s vision for UTHSC is to raise the college’s profile. 

In her recusal, Sarah Campbell cited a rule that says, “A judge shall disqualify himself or herself in any proceeding in which the judge’s impartiality might reasonably be questioned.”

The latest effort to increase enrollment at East High School is a merger with Maxine Smith STEAM Academy, but some have called what’s happened at East “educational redlining.” 

“This bill does not ban any book,” state Sen. Jack Johnson said about the controversial Age-Appropriate Materials Act of 2022.