Shelby County Schools receives an extension from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, giving the district more time to use $11 million left from the 2009 gift.

As an unprecedented six-year investment begins to dry up in Memphis schools, leaders seek to sustain the teacher quality reforms that have just begun to take root.

As disenchantment swells over the Achievement School District, the state chooses to take control of a Memphis middle school on a tight-knit three-school campus.