Sharon Griffin, a longtime leader at Shelby County Schools, will be the next leader of the state’s turnaround district.
Griffin will take the helm of the Achievement School District in late May under the titles of Assistant Commissioner of School...
Patrick Washington has teaching in his blood.
Washington’s great-great-grandfather, Richard Adkins, was born a slave in Marshall County, Mississippi. After the Civil War, Adkins, who was separated from his parents early on, worked as a sharecropper. Despite long hours...
When it gets cold outside, Felix Scott sometimes skips school because he knows there’s a chance heat won’t be working in some classrooms.
“I love this school,” Scott, an 11th-grader, said of Kingsbury High School in Memphis. But “most of...
Shelby County Schools board members heard an ambitious plan Tuesday to expand district support for students across all its nearly 150 schools.
The proposal would expand the district’s flagship turnaround program, the Innovation Zone; test all first-graders for gifted education;...
Shelby County has its first-ever director of education — and he is responsible for fostering collaboration among the county’s seven school systems.
Cedrick Gray will hold the newly created position, and report to Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris.
Gray is a...
A former turnaround principal is returning to Memphis as an assistant superintendent overseeing the Innovation Zone and other school turnaround work for Shelby County Schools, a spokeswoman confirmed Monday.
Antonio Burt started his new job last week under Chief of...
The Memphis principal who was demoted last year over what district officials said were improper grade changes will not get her job back.
The Shelby County Schools board voted 6-0 Wednesday evening not to reinstate Monekea Smith, the former principal...
Some 20 years ago, Ginny Terrell’s third grade math teacher called her “stupid.” Now, Terrell laughs as she names her current position: a third grade math teacher.
“I was that kid in school that everybody was like, ‘What’s wrong with...
The University of Memphis is proposing to operate a middle school along with its existing elementary school while boosting student diversity in its programs.
The university’s elementary, Campus School, has the highest percentage of white students in the city, at...
Memphis’ most prominent education philanthropic fund officially has a new leader in former interim CEO Terence Patterson – and one of his big goals for Memphis Education Fund is to finance more creative, grass-roots solutions to education problems facing...