For over a year, we have been working with Memphis charter school parents to advocate for the Shelby County Schools Board to pass a charter compact that would start to build a partnership between the district and the charter school it authorizes. At Tuesday night’s school board meeting—in front of a packed room full of […]
Stand for Children Tennessee Commends Final Passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act —Civil Rights bill hasn’t been reauthorized in since 2001— MEMPHIS, TN – Stand for Children Tennessee Memphis City Director, Cardell Orrin, issued the following statement today following President Obama signing the much-anticipated Every Student Succeeds Act, legislation which reauthorizes the Elementary and Secondary […]
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you may have heard about TNReady, the new Tennessee state assessment test that’s starting this year. TNReady is not an extra test, but a new and improved version of the old TCAP test for Math and English that will be administered for the first time this school year in grades 3-12. […]
Summer is underway and organizations in Memphis and Shelby County metropolitan area are working together to combat summer reading loss. Shelby County’s “Engage Me” group gave out bags of books to students in predominately low-income neighborhoods as an effort to encourage reading over the summer. These bags included books, journals, crayons, and information about online enrollment […]
Many of us have heard of the Wheel Tax. Every year this tax generates about $33 million. In the last few years, the County Commission has required that it be spent only on education (either debt or operations). Right now, a majority of the Wheel Tax collected goes to education debt. We want them to […]
Why wait until November 4th to vote? Who knows what will come up that day – work is busy, your kid is sick – you run around all day and then all of a sudden the day is over and you missed the window to make it to the polls. Trust me, I’ve been there. […]
