Girls on the Run finished out the spring semester online, but only about 60% of the girls showed up on Zoom team meetings.

The Excel Center opened as a charter school but is now a contract school with Shelby County Schools.

The move back to school buildings would make KIPP one of the first public schools in the city to reopen after starting all remote. The return to in-person learning is outlined in a letter from the charter network’s CEO Kendra Ferguson. 

In its third year, the middle school will operate in Fogelman Executive Center off Central and Innovation Drive.

Germantown is allowing 7th and 8th graders on campus four days per week beginning Nov. 2. The change brings the hybrid learning model in house.

Facility will serve 200 3-, 4-year-olds in the Melrose High School neighborhood.

The university is suffering from more than $50 million in losses from the spring and fall semesters.

Two local higher education institutions are the recipients of surplus lab equipment given in a long-term loan from the Health Department.

Lakeland schools Superintendent Ted Horrell received stellar remarks in his review by the system’s school board, setting the stage for a new contract.

One-week training sessions will begin next summer. Tuition is covered for veterans and low-wage earners. 

St. George’s has named Timothy Gibson as head of school. Gibson has served in the position on an interim basis since Ross Peters stepped down.

The governor and his education commissioner stand by the presentation of a massive learning loss report even though old data was used to make dire predictions stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic.

The schools that Tennessee took over in the last decade can begin to return to their local districts in Memphis and Nashville in 2024 instead of 2022 as proposed earlier this year. 

The state is expected to get 133,000 of the new COVID tests — which deliver results in minutes, not days — in early October, and 2 million by the end of the year.

Classes that were approved to start in mid-September among those being invited back.

Rhodes College President Marjorie Hass urges the college to rise to the “great challenges” of Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, and others praise the the Notre Dame law professor’s commitment to equality and women’s rights.

Recent back-to-school test results from Tennessee students were not the basis for state projections that proficiency rates will drop by 50% or more for third-grade reading and math due to schooling disruptions during the pandemic.

On Memphis campuses, dozens of international students have deferred their arrival because they could not get visas, a factor of the pandemic and immigration politics.

Republican lawmakers such as state Rep. Kevin Vaughan are irritated by a state report about “learning loss” among K-12 students statewide, with schools on inconsistent footing and different health department directives during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Amy Coney Barrett, considered the frontrunner, is currently a member of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. If confirmed, Barrett, 48, would become the Supreme Court’s youngest justice.

The potential appointment of Rhodes College graduate Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court just before the Nov. 3 presidential election is creating division within the college community, according to a letter from the school’s president.

During an appearance on “Behind The Headlines,” Shelby County Schools Superintendent Joris Ray also pushed back against the narrative that no high school football games for the state’s largest school system could limit the path to higher education for student athletes.

Gov. Bill Lee sounded the alarm Wednesday, saying Tennessee is projecting a massive learning loss by students because of school closings during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially for minority students and those with disabilities.

With less than two months left in his final term, the state representative raised concerns about the state’s method for evaluating teachers, urging the House Education Committee to find another way to measure their performance.

Tennessee Education Commissioner Penny Schwinn avoided a no-confidence vote Tuesday, Sept. 21 but not verbal criticism from lawmakers during a House Education Committee hearing.