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'A sense of pride:' MSCS superintendent wants to bring custodial services back in-house
When Memphis-Shelby County Schools Superintendent Marie Feagins was a student, she loved the custodian who took care of her classroom. This sentiment didn’t change once she grew up and started working in schools. “As a principal, as a teacher, we all knew who our custodian was,” she said last...
MSCS to assume control of former charter school
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - Memphis-Shelby County Schools (MSCS) is assuming control of Caldwell-Guthrie Elementary School and transforming it into a pre-K through 8th-grade STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math) school. Caldwell-Guthrie Elementary is one of the three Memphis Scholars schools that had their charters revoked last week because of...
Southwest Tennessee Community College network systems impacted by ‘cyber incident’
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Southwest Tennessee Community College has announced that they have identified a cyber incident that has impacted its network systems. They say that this issue extends beyond the server problem initially reported to the college on July 3. In a statement from the school, the college says they are actively working with computer […]
MSCS may turn charter school into STEAM school
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