Four private schools remain charities
FOUR Scottish private schools are to be allowed to retain their charitable status after improving bursary schemes. The Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR) is expected to announce the move today after working with the schools to change the way they fund financial support. Hutchesons Grammar School in Glasgow, Merchiston Castle School in Edinburgh, [...]
Meet six of the country’s best STEM schools
Intel’s Schools of Distinction Awards celebrate effective 21st-century teaching and learning It’s a modern Cinderella story: Representatives from 18 optimistic, hardworking school communities were honored with a fancy black tie party Sept. 20, with critics of public education blissfully absent for the night. In today’s political climate, with policy makers and pundits quick to condemn [...]
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 teachers rewarded for successes
“Instead of staying and dealing with things that are problematic, people transfer to other schools where they don’t have to deal with the extra scrutiny,” she said. “For most people, the incentive was great, but people stayed because they felt it was their duty to bring about change in problem schools.” Memphis City Schools administrators [...]
Ousted Ridgeway Middle principal, assistant shifted to other schools
Last winter, Memphis City Schools ordered an internal audit of possible wrongdoing at Ridgeway Middle School and suspended the principal and assistant principal. While both employees were reassigned late this spring to other schools, the results of the audit have not been released. “They have talent; they have skill. We are going to try to [...]