Author: SCM

Allan Wade, on behalf of Citizens for Better Education, today filed suit asking a judge to order the Shelby County Election Commission to set a date for the referendum on relinquishing the charter for Memphis City Schools. Read...

Tennessee Election Commissioner Mark Goins continues to play his games aimed at delaying the Memphis vote on surrendering the charter of Memphis City Schools. If you are connecting the dots on your scorecard, he works for...

More legal opinions clarify questions asked about consolidation of city and county schools and the impact of a special school district. There’s no longer any question that the Shelby County Board of Commissioners will...

From Memphis Daily News: The Memphis Talent Dividend (MTD) College Attainment Initiative is a more than 100-member mission to increase the number of college graduates in the Memphis Metropolitan area by 1 percent over the next...

From The Commercial Appeal comes this op-ed column by the highly respected educator Fred Johnson: A city school district where students are predominantly black and poor. A county school district where students tend to be white...

The campaign to consolidate schools has been formed, and you can support its work on Facebook at this link.

By Neal Pierce, citiwire.net: “Sustainability.” It’s 14 letters, six syllables. Small wonder many people blanch when they read or hear the word. Some may ask — “Is it something about the environment?” For clarity and to stress...

Our friend and fellow blogger Steve Ross can always be counted on for a lucid take on events.  He recently wrote about the press conference by Shelby County Schools to spread fear and misinformation: The noise machine is...

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Memphis City Council Attorney Allan Wade dismantles the state’s Election Coordinator’s attempt to slow down referendum on school unification. Read it here.