Stand members and leaders supporting pre-K at a school board meeting in 2012
Stand for Children parent and educator leaders receive honors at the Memphis Education Action Summit!
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 […]
