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The Empowerment Academy is one of three public charter schools proposed this year by an organization of the same name, with two others planned for Memphis and Nashville.
Trimble Academy supporters are expected to submit an amended application for a second review later this summer.
Chattanooga leaders and educators are giving the public a first look at the city’s new facility for career and technical education (CTE).
Supporters say a surprise decision last year spurred interest in establishing the school in the small town.
Rutherford County School Board members still have some questions about American Classical Academy’s request.
Metro Nashville Public School (MNPS) District 6 candidates were given the opportunity to answer questions in a public setting on Saturday night.
The site serves as a resource to track its response to the audit and provide transparency on its operations.
The Tennessee Public Charter School Commission held a public hearing to give school leaders and parents an opportunity to explain why the new school is needed.
In the audit, officials revealed nearly 175 deficiencies involving a wide range of “widespread operational failures.”
The vote followed a lengthy debate about whether it was financially responsible to buy the property for less than its appraised value.
Nearly a year into the school’s first year, the executive director of Nurses Middle College – Nashville is dealing with rapid expansion while trying to secure new buildings, resources, and funding.
The charter school has spent its first year operating in a cluster of buildings behind the Donelson First Baptist Church.
The long-awaited forensic audit in Memphis-Shelby County Schools is days away from release, according to a Facebook post by Representative Mark White, R-Memphis.
The money will help build a new Toyota Engineering, Manufacturing, and Mechatronics (EM²) Institute STEM lab at Jackson Central-Merry Early College High School.
The search follows last week’s announcement that the current superintendent, Jeff Luttrell, will retire.
No action was taken on a motion to allow the district to buy school buses to replace future unfilled contracts.
More than 35,000 students in grades 2 through 9 attempted and completed the assessments, and Stinson noted that MNPS had a 96.9 percent participation rate, despite challenges from Winter Storm Fern.
Board members approved closing Georgian Hills Elementary School, Lucy Elementary School, Chickasaw Middle School, Frayser-Corning Elementary, Ida B. Wells Academy at the end of the school year. (MSCS Logo)
One of the contractors the board uses to employ school bus drivers has lost insurance coverage, meaning those buses cannot be used until it is restored. The issue affects approximately 40 buses and 41 different school bus routes. (Stock Image)
Richmond has been serving as interim superintendent since the board fired former superintendent, Dr. Marie Feagins last year.
The district has received a waiver covering five impacted days and will not need to adjust its school calendar.
County commissioners approved the plan last year to align all nine school board seats on the same 2026 election cycle.
The change will move most high school start and dismissal times forward by twenty minutes, and elementary start and dismissal times forward by 10 minutes.