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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — An employee at Treadwell Elementary and Middle schools was placed on a cautionary quarantine after contact with a patient who tested positive for coronavirus, the school district said Monday. Shelby County Schools said the district confirmed late Sunday evening that the employee had been placed on a 14-day quarantine directed by the […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Two school districts within Shelby County are working to ensure students are safe after the Shelby County Health Department confirmed a county resident tested positive for the novel coronavirus on Sunday morning. Shelby County Schools released a statement Sunday afternoon saying it has put together an internal task force and policy group […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Shelby County School Board has reportedly ended its partnership with the Shelby County District Attorney’s Office on a truancy program that helped keep kids in school. Shelby County District Attorney Amy Weirich said she unexpectedly received word from SCS recently that her office’s relationship with the schools would end. The program […]

SHELBY COUNTY, Tenn. — Shelby County Schools is providing what they say is proof the district notified parents about finding unsafe amounts of lead in some schools’ water sources in 2017. Eight weeks after WREG requested documents, SCS officials recently provided a few emails dated Sept. 8, 2017. The first sent to county school board […]

Shelby County Schools hosted its first State of the District on Thursday morning.

SHELBY COUNTY, Tenn. — The Plough Foundation made a major donation Tuesday to Shelby County Schools in the amount of $1 million. The donation will help SCS continue the work of the Continuous Improvement Zone, which is made up of 12 schools formerly part of the I-Zone, the lowest performing schools in the district. “You […]

WREG has uncovered more Shelby County Schools that were found with dangerously high lead levels in testing done in 2017.

A water fountain at one airport-area school was found with more than 1,000 times the EPA standard of 15 parts per billion.

The latest round of lead testing results are in and several more Shelby County Schools reportedly had results that were approximately one percent above the EPA threshold.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Despite an online petition with about 10,000 signatures to cancel school in Shelby County for Halloween, Shelby County Schools said education will continue on the spooky holiday. A petition on change.org created by an SCS student asks students to sign in agreement that school should be cancelled on Oct. 31 and Nov. […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Shelby County Schools announced Wednesday that the district will be taking steps to stop a rise in threats made on social media. SCS was joined  by the Memphis Police Department, the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office, the FBI and the Secret Service to make a blatant statement about how seriously they’re all taking […]