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By the 1990s, the state ranked as 45th in funding of public schools. The legislature passed the Education Improvement Act in 1992 to improve funding of schools as well as election of board members and school management. Until 1996, Shelby County school board members had been appointed by the Shelby County Commission.
There are four high schools in the Norwalk public school district, for grades 9-12: Norwalk High School is the home of the Norwalk Bears. The school was founded in 1902. Brien McMahon High School, named for Senator Brien McMahon, first chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, was founded in 1960.
Kirby High School – Hickory Hill was annexed by the City of Memphis in December 1998, thus placing the school in the Memphis City Schools system in fall 1999. Kirby primarily serves the southeast area of Memphis going to the current city-unincorporated county boundary line.
Carl Johnson, pictured above in the Aug. 8, 1972 edition of the Memphis Press-Scimitar, died Dec. 26, 2023. He was 88 years old, and the longest serving elected school board official.
The Memphis-Shelby County Schools board has elected a new board chair and vice chair for the 2024-25 school year. ... Sept. 17, 2024 at MSCS Board of Education in Memphis, Tenn.
In February, the Memphis-Shelby County Board of Education selected Marie Feagins to be the district’s next superintendent. In June, it gave her the green light to slash hundreds of positions and ...
Memphis City Schools (MCS) was the school district operating public schools in the city of Memphis, Tennessee, United States. It was headquartered in the Frances E. Coe Administration Building. On March 8, 2011, residents voted to disband the city school district, effectively merging it with the Shelby County School District. [1]
The school is formerly operated by the Memphis City Schools and was a campus school in the Shelby County Schools before submitting its charter to KIPP. The school serves about 450 students in grades 6–8. After the 2013–14 school year, the Memphis City Board of Education decided to close Cypress Middle down.