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School districts received nine applications for new public charter schools. A new tool puts each under the microscope.

This year nine potential charter operators met the February 1 deadline to file an application to open a new public.

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Memphis-Shelby County Schools poised to spend $12 million ramping up school safety

Members of the Memphis-Shelby County School Board are expected to approve a plan later this month to spend more than.

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New legislation would allow the University of Memphis to form its own K-12 school district

Each school day more than a thousand children and teenagers travel from across Shelby County to the University of Memphis.

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Memphis parent advocate Sarah Carpenter calls President Biden’s proposed budget “an attack on black children”

Memphis parent advocate Sarah Carpenter is among those blasting President Biden’s proposed FY 2025 budget for potentially cutting valuable support.

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New Memphis-Shelby County Schools Superintendent now slated to start April 1

The timeline for Memphis-Shelby County School’s new superintendent to get to work is officially moving up. Members of the Memphis-Shelby.

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Incoming Memphis schools leader Marie Feagins begins work, set to assume superintendent role April 1

Incoming Superintendent Marie Feagins has started working with Memphis-Shelby County Schools under a per diem agreement, allowing her to begin.

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Audit finds Memphis-Shelby County Schools on solid financial ground

When Toni Williams took over as chief financial officer (CFO) for Memphis-Shelby County Schools (MSCS) in 2019, the district faced.

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Five Memphis students battling sickle cell disease receive scholarship in honor of Interim Superintendent Williams’ mother

Interim Memphis-Shelby County Schools Superintendent Toni Williams says her mother Shirley Yvette Green was a strong woman and a warrior.

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Operations leader to leave Memphis-Shelby County Schools

Memphis-Shelby County Schools may have gained a new superintendent this month but the district is losing its Chief of Business.

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Board picks Dr. Marie Feagins to lead Memphis-Shelby County Schools

The more than yearlong search for a new leader of the state’s largest school district is officially over. Members of.

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