Laura Faith Kebede, Chalkbeat Tennessee Shelby County Schools Superintendent Joris Ray withdrew a proposal Tuesday night that would have threatened 16 low-performing charter schools with…
Read More Shelby County Schools backs away from tighter rules on struggling charter schools
Photo: The Mid-South Food Bank gives out 14-day food boxes at the Shelby County Schools central office on Wednesdays. PHOTO CREDIT: Shelby County Schools By Laura Faith Kebede for…
Read More Thousands more Memphis families picking up meals while school is out
Originally published March, 2020. Feature Image: Student walks down a hallway at Crispus Attucks High School. (Alan Petersime/Chalkbeat) Matt Barnum, Chalkbeat Racially integrated high schools often…
Read More Racially integrated high schools often conceal segregated classes, new study shows
Originally published January, 2020. Feature Image: Kindergarten and first grade students in Treadwell Elementary’s new gifted education class compare each other’s height to get in…
Read More No more ‘secret handshake’: Universal screening qualifies 600 more Memphis students for gifted education. More to come.
Originally published July, 2019. Feature Image: The integrated sixth grade class at Raleigh Bartlett-Meadows in the mid-1970s. Jacqueline Hill-Ferby, who was bused to the school…
Read More Busing students to integrate Memphis schools was maligned by some, ‘opened a whole new world’ for others
Originally published March, 2019. Feature Image: The Briarcrest High School band at a 2016 football game against St. George’s. (Stan Carroll/The Commercial Appeal) Laura Faith Kebede,…
Read More Gov. Lee’s voucher proposal will help families pay for private school. But will black Memphis students go where they were historically shunned?