Kristen and her three children are shown after she voted in the August Shelby County election.
Momentum Memphis Task Force Leaders planning for the October meeting.
Literacy plays a pivotal role in student success. The ability to read is the academic lever that determines a student’s future and is strongly correlated to achievement in all other areas. However, a lack of resources and investment in literacy creates a barrier for student achievement that cannot easily be overcome. This is where we […]
Graduation success is one of the four platform areas that we focus on in our Momentum Memphis campaign. Research conducted by the University of Chicago revealed that student success in the first year of high school is a critical indicator for graduation. Studies showed that ninth graders who had high absentee rates or failed one or more […]
The concept of student-based budgeting (SBB), also called weighted student funding or fair student funding, has been around for several years now but is recently becoming more popular as more school districts across the country have begun to adopt the practice with a range of successful results. Traditionally, school districts have allocated staffing and funding […]
To tackle funding inequities and its implications, school districts across the country are shifting to student-based allocation and entrusting school leaders with the task of addressing the needs of their individual school. In Memphis, Shelby County Schools is implementing Back2Students, a student-based budget-planning initiative that prioritizes four types of students: first-time readers, students with disabilities, students […]
