Football is back for SCS, highlights from Jamboree MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) — Football is back for Shelby County Schools! Thursday was night one of the Jamboree, where we get a taste of what we can see this fall.
Balloon release held in memory of teen killed at … MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Dozens of balloons were released outside of Hamilton High School Monday night to remember a sophomore who was gunned down at a gas station in Whitehaven over the weekend. 15-year-old Phillexus Buchanan was one of three teenage girls, and a 9-month-old baby shot Friday night at the gas station on Elvis Presley […]
Nashville DA won’t prosecute for governor’s student … An order by the Tennessee governor letting parents opt their children out of following mask rules at school has drawn defiance from officials in Memphis and Nashville.
Coalition wants to end agreement between SCS, Shelby … A coalition of non-profits and activists want Shelby County Schools to end their agreement with the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office, which provides resource officers in schools. The groups believe that dissolving that relationship will remove young people’s early connection to the criminal justice system.
Massive learning setbacks show COVID’s sweeping toll … The COVID-19 pandemic devastated poor children’s well-being, not just by closing their schools, but also by taking away their parents’ jobs, sickening their families and teachers, and adding chaos and fear to their daily lives. The scale of the disruption to American kids’ education is evident in a district-by-district analysis of test scores shared exclusively […]
TN law to ban schools, businesses from requiring … UPDATE: Gov. Bill Lee signed this bill on Friday. However, students in Shelby County Schools still will have to mask up because of an injunction in a lawsuit filed by SCS parents. Get details on the local impact here. UPDATE: Shelby County filed an emergency motion for clarification Thursday, seeking information on what obligations Shelby […]
TennesseeCAN: Education funding and the Pandemic The pandemic created an unprecedented situation for educators across the country last year and into 2021. To help, Congress signed off on the American Rescue Plan which will send more than two billion dollars to Tennessee’s Department of Education alone. Shelby County Schools will receive more than five hundred million dollars of that funding and one […]
School districts across Shelby County grapple with … MEMPHIS, Tenn. — School districts in Shelby County are responding to the latest TCAP results released by the state. Tennessee’s governor had prepared parents for the latest TCAP standardized test scores, which show historic learning losses. In Shelby County Schools, this year fewer students were considered proficient or performing at the state’s expectation of their […]
Germantown and Whitehaven, like the rest of Shelby … MEMPHIS — You can’t blame Gene Robinson if he’s a little excited for the start of the high school football season, now less than four weeks away. You see, Robinson is still waiting to coach his first game at Germantown. He was hired to coach the Red Devils just days before Christmas…in 2019 but then […]
SCS ending partnership with Porter-Leath for pre-K … MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Shelby County Schools is ending a contract with Porter-Leath to provide Head Start pre-K to 1,520 children, the school district said Thursday. SCS will bring the remaining pre-K services in house, resulting in up to $3 million in savings, the district said in a release. The district said no disruption to students […]
Middle TN judge’s order blocks new COVID laws MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The debate over masks in schools takes another twist on Sunday when a federal judge blocked Tennessee’s law, which bans mask mandates in schools. That law just went into effect on Friday. Several school districts across the area have issued new mask policies in light of the statewide law that took effect last week. But those plans could change after […]
