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.

The Local Accountability and Transformation Plan will prioritize four goals.

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)

The ruling ends LEAD’s challenge of a school rezoning plan.

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. 

Knox Prep faces challenges across multiple fronts, including enrollment.

The district closed schools for the ninth consecutive day on Thursday.

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.

A spokesperson for Metro Nashville Public Schools says as of Thursday night, 17 schools were still without power, and another eight were experiencing partial outages due to Winter Storm Fern.

On a 6-2 vote, the Tennessee Public Charter School Commission granted Knowledge Academy at the Crossing’s appeal for a five-year renewal of its charter agreement.

More than 100 thousand homes remain without power in Nashville alone.

Those schools have been without formal custodial services this year, following a decision last month against approving a contract with ABM Industries.

At Tuesday night’s board work session, multiple members expressed support to keep interim superintendent Dr. Roderick Richmond on the job.