Since students across the state returned to classrooms nearly a month ago, Tennessee has drawn nationwide attention for skyrocketing COVID cases among children.
In turn, quarantines, too, have skyrocketed, impacting students, parents, and caretakers for weeks at a time.
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Ideas submitted so far include an indoor-outdoor sports complex, new locations for charter schools, and apartments for teachers.
The MSCS school board voted last week to shutter five schools by the end of this year. That leaves over 1,200 students to find a new place to go next fall, with the district extending its priority transfer deadline to accommodate last-minute changes.
The district wanted to use the operating millage to pay off capital and revolving fund debts ahead of schedule. The ruling will not allow it.
The survey is in: Parent coordinators told us what they want the city to know about their jobs.
Newark Public Schools is trying to address overcrowding but finding available land to do so is tricky. The district will hold a public hearing on its proposal in late March.
Two MSCS board races will be decided by the first ever partisan primary for the position on May 5. Seventeen candidates are vying for the four open spots.
