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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Parents took to the podium at a school board meeting in Collierville Tuesday night to voice their opinions on whether students and staff should be required to wear masks when classes begin next month. “I believe that masking is still important,” Cindy Murray said. “We must all be given the opportunity to […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Two weeks into the new school year, Shelby County Schools is still trying to fill hundreds of teaching positions. On June 28, WREG Investigators submitted an open records request asking how many teacher vacancies there were in the district. SCS responded more than six weeks later, giving us a list of teacher positions they needed to […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Faith leaders across the state of Tennessee are condemning Governor Bill Lee’s order that allows parents to opt out of mask requirements for their children in school. Lee signed the executive order Monday, saying in part, “while local decision-making is important, individual decision-making by a parent on issues regarding the health and […]

MEMPHIS — For high school football players and teams in the City of Memphis, Opening Night is almost here and for Shelby County schools, it has been an almost two year wait to return to the field. But these are still some nervous times. While Shelby County schools stay focused on their first games this […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A second-grade teacher at Riverwood Elementary in Cordova has died following COVID-19 complications. Friends and those working with the school system identified the teacher as Ashley Leatherwood. “She was very supportive, outgoing, she was very smart,” Robert Payne said about his friend. “I knew she had underlying health issues before COVID but […]

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.

SHELBY COUNTY, Tenn.– Some students across Shelby County are no longer masking up in the classroom after an executive order issued by Governor Bill Lee says parents can have their children opt out of mask mandates in schools.  Of the roughly 8,700 students in Collierville, nearly 1,000 are opting out. But the majority of parents, […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Tennessee doctors are pushing back in opposition to an order by the state’s governor allowing parents to opt their children out of local school mask mandates. Thousands have signed on to an open letter to Gov. Bill Lee posted online Tuesday. That letter says the opt-out provision threatens the public, and asks […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Tennessee’s governor might’ve issued an executive order saying parents can opt out of school district mask mandates, but Shelby County Schools says not so fast. The state’s largest school district says masks are still required for everyone on its district’s campuses. Parents are weighing in about their feelings in what is quickly […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Tennessee Governor Bill Lee’s executive order to allow parents the chance to opt out of any school mask mandate did not sit well with some, including the Shelby County Commissioners Black Caucus. On Tuesday, the group threw its support behind SCS’s decision to continue requiring masks in spite of despite the state’s […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Gov. Bill Lee issued a new executive order on Monday giving parents the ability to opt their children out of local health board or health department mandates regarding masks. “No one cares more about the health & well-being of a child than a parent,” Lee wrote. (The rest of his statement is […]