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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Wave of support raises stakes for Memphis City Schools
Rebecca Panter (left) and Jasmyn Wright, who moved from out of state to teach at Evans Elementary School, set up for the first day of class. First-year Memphis City Schools teacher Jasmyn Wright, 21, grew up in South New Jersey, studied a semester in Africa and graduated a semester early from Spelman College with a [...]