Skip to main contentRise & Shine: Superintendent Hopson grades himself an “incomplete”
By | October 22, 2013, 11:41am UTC - Administrators tonight will preview the costs associated with a shrinking Shelby County schools. (Commercial Appeal, Chalkbeat)
- Germantown asked Shelby’s school board to keep the school zones the way they are now. (Commercial Appeal)
- Bartlett’s mayor said he’d be happy to preserve school zones, too, but doesn’t think that will happen. (Chalkbeat)
- Superintendent Hopson said he’s up to the security, transportation, and Head Start challenges, grading himself “incomplete.” (WREG)
- Transportation frustrations emerged again after a school bus hit a car, hurting two children. (WMCTV, My Fox Memphis, WREG)
- DeSoto Schools grew a manageable 295 students this year. (Commercial Appeal, My Fox Memphis)
- A special board said it’s unlikely they’ll be able to open charter schools in Mississippi by fall of 2014. (My Fox Memphis)
- Memphis Grizzlies helped some local children build a garden. (WREG)
- Bradley’s commission wants a report on how Common Core impacts the classroom. (Chattanoogan)
- Studies concluding that children can fall behind in language early have fueled pre-K support. (NYT)
- A 12-year-old student killed a teacher, then himself, at a Nevada middle school. (NYT, WSJ)
- Bill Keller: Education schools have a “lucrative monopoly,” and there are people trying to end it. (NYT)
