On Tuesday, the state's largest school district is expected to address whether thousands of Memphis-Shelby County third graders might be kept from fourth grade.
Members of Congress will soon have the opportunity to grantlow-income District of Columbia families the chance to choose wheretheir children attend school. If every Member who uses privateschools votes to give disadvantaged D.C. families the same access,the legislation will pass. In the past three years, every piece ofparental choice legislation would have passed if those whoexercised choice in their own families had voted with supporters ofschool choice.
Tennessee Department of Education and Tennessee Grow Your Own Center awarded over $5 million in subgrant funding to increase access and remove barriers to the educator profession.
Libertas School officials are planning renovations and an expansion after the Memphis-Shelby County Schools board agreed to sell a Frayser elementary building to the charter school.