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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Amid the chaos of Thursday’s shooting at Cummings K-8 School, a hero emerged. SCS Superintendent Joris Ray praised the steps “Nurse Taylor” took to save the life of the 13-year-old victim. Friday, school nurse Karen Taylor spoke exclusively with WREG. Taylor was among the first people to make contact with the 13-year-old student, […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Classes resumed Friday morning at Cummings K-8 Optional School, one day after students had to be evacuated because a student shot a classmate. “We are doing everything we can to ensure our children are safe. We’re doing everything we can we’re attending to their social and emotional well-being,” Superintendent Dr. Joris Ray […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Shelby County Schools’ Mobile COVID Testing Vehicle is on the road, now ready to offer free COVID tests to those who want them. With a new school year underway, testing is front and center to keep things safe. The testing is not required for students and teachers, but offered. Monday more than 1,000 […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Parents and other loved ones had to wait to be reunited with their children after a 13-year-old boy was shot at Cummings K-8 School Thursday morning. Students were evacuated from their classrooms and taken by bus to nearby Metropolitan Baptist Church to be picked up by their parents while police searched in […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Pre-K through fifth grade students in Shelby County returned to the classroom on Monday. For leaders like SCS Superintendent Dr. Joris Ray, it was a decision carefully made after weeks and months of precautions due to the pandemic.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Masked up and ready, Shelby County School Superintendent Joris Ray hopped off a school bus to music Monday morning and headed inside Bruce Elementary to greet students and staff. “We have returned stronger. Our students they are eager to learn,” Ray said. This first day tour has greater meaning in the face […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A 13-year-old boy was critically injured in a shooting Thursday morning at a Memphis K-8 school, and police say the suspected shooter was another student. Police responded at 9:15 a.m. to Cummings K-8 School on Cummings Street near Walker Avenue in the Soulsville area of South Memphis. MPD said one 13-year-old boy […]

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. — A 13-year-old boy critically injured in a shooting Thursday morning at a Memphis K-8 school is expected to make a full recovery, district Superintendent Joris Ray said. A nurse at the school calmed victim down and called his father, who was three minutes away from the school, Ray said. The nurse applied […]

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. – Shelby County has filed a lawsuit against Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee over the recent executive order that allows parents to opt their children out of mask mandates. The suit was filed late Thursday afternoon. “It’s unfortunate that we are having to litigate this issue when ultimately we’re trying to do what’s best […]