City offers Memphis City Schools $10 million in deal to end standoff

The city has offered Memphis City Schools $10 million on top of the $3 million it paid Wednesday in early talks to get the school year started on time. Under the proposal, the city school board would have to agree to let the $57 million judgment from 2008-2009 run its course in court. School board [...]

Last-minute changes slow Memphis City Schools funding resolution

Memphis Mayor A C Wharton and Memphis City School Board president Martavius Jones present the details of a proposed payment schedule to fund city schools. The school board postponed a meeting Friday intended to vote on the deal. Supt. Kriner Cash said the delay was to allow school attorneys time to go over the proposal. [...]

Deal could resolve funding dispute, open Memphis City Schools on time

Memphis City Schools board member Jeff Warren (left) talks with City Councilman Jim Strickland before Thursday’s special council meeting on budget issues. A deal reached Thursday offered hope that the showdown over school financing that has threatened the start of the fall semester for city school students could be coming to an end. Under the [...]

Memphis City Schools board sorts 14 charter school applicants

If every group hoping to open a charter school here next fall is approved, about 1,500 children — and the tax dollars that support them — will move away from the city schools. The Memphis City Schools board has received 14 charter applications, predominantly from grass-roots organizations, including faith groups, that want to be in [...]

Pay reduced for controversial consultant at Memphis City Schools

Jeffrey Hernandez, the Florida consultant hired by Memphis City Schools Supt. Kriner Cash to help turn around failing schools, is working for about half the amount the school board promised to pay him in August. While he still earns $1,500 a day, an update shared with the board Monday shows Hernandez’s contract has dropped from [...]

Parents’ timing tardy in getting kids to Memphis City Schools

While most Memphis City Schools students reported for classes on the first day, Aug. 9, as many as 12 percent of the district’s pupils took their own sweet time showing up. MCS reports that on Aug. 13, there were 92,378 students registered in K-12. By Aug. 31 that number had grown to 104,810. It wasn’t [...]