This past week Councilman Harris issued a resolution that would require the city to pay its debt to to Shelby County Schools of $57.5 million. From the resolution: NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED the Memphis City Council respectfully requests that…
Memphis is a great place to live for many reasons. But a new report out suggests that our population continues to stagnate. Worse, people continue to leave, as Fox13 reports in this video (worth a watch if you click on the…
Defeats Arizona 64-63. Completely unrelated to education in Memphis, but hey, its my blog and I’m a badger for life! All high school juniors in Memphis should apply next year. I bet if Kentucky wins tomorrow we get a lot…
As adults, we constantly need to master new skills and adjust our thinking to new information to solve the many challenges facing our world. Our schools should be designed to empower our children to accomplish the same. To accomplish this,…
One of BCE’s goals going forward is to not only promote the teacher voice through out site but through other leadership opportunities around the state and country. We’ll be posting Teacher Leadership Opportunities from time to time under the tage “teacher…
The Department of Education posted a great piece today detailing how schools across Tennessee are using the state’s teacher prep program report card, established in 2007, to help improve their teacher training programs. This includes both traditional and alternative certification programs.…
Originally Published on The SCORE Sheet on March 12, 2014, written by Jon Alfuth: “Tell me the height of our school.” This is a seemingly easy question, yet one that requires the student to apply a variety of academic and…
The filing deadline for candidates running for the unified school board is fast approaching (April 3rd) and the start of candidate petitions for municipal districts is exactly 2 months away (starts May 23rd, ends August 21st). Also for those that…
Since 2008, the City of Memphis and Memphis City Schools (now Shelby County Schools) have wrangled inside and outside of courtrooms over whether the City owes $57.5 million to the schools system. Although the City lost the initial court cases,…
If you didn’t see this earlier in the week, Supt. Hopson took a bold stand in the face of continued intransigence on the part of our state elected officials round common core by declaring “we’re ready!” In his own words…
