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Shelby County Schools is poised to contract with teacher training consultant Educational Epiphany for the 2021-2022 school year after previously dropping a more substantial contract proposal with the company in February.
For $750,000, the company will host at least 81 days of professional development for the district s teachers and teacher leadership staff. The contract is an increase of $100,000 and 25 learning sessions from last year, documents show.
Different from the contract proposed in February, the latest agreement does not include literacy materials for students, but is instead only for teacher training.
In February, district officials proposed a $14.5 million, five-year contract with the company, owned by Donyall Dickey, but pulled the contract from a board vote ahead of several public comments critical of the literacy programming and following a report about the district s work with the company by The Commercial Appeal and Chalkbeat, as well as another report by
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Last summer, Shelby County s District Attorney Amy Weirich assigned a team of five prosecutors to start looking into the excessive force complaints leveled against officers in the Memphis Police Department. The Conduct Review Team (CRT) has already filed misconduct charges against two officers.
Investigative journalist Marc Perrusquia with the University of Memphis Institute for Public Service Reporting talks about some of the policy changes and lawsuits that have contributed to officials taking a closer look at misconduct complaints.
This is a lightly edited version of the audio conversation above.
Q: In the past, these complaints were handled internally at MPD. What changed and why?
The company ensnared in a years-long legal battle to buy an unfinished nuclear plant from the Tennessee Valley Authority showcased a new tactic Wednesday tying the fight over the Bellefonte Nuclear Plant to President Joe Biden s plans to curtail climate change.
Nuclear Development, a private company owned by real estate developer Franklin Haney and his family, sent out a news release this week that tied the company s long-held plans to buy Bellefonte to the new push to decarbonize the nation s electric grid.
“There is a major mismatch between the strategy TVA’s previous leadership adopted and the new federal decarbonization targets. The public-private Bellefonte partnership we originally put forward which is still on the table is a real opportunity for TVA’s current leadership to fix that. That is why we are calling on TVA leadership and local and energy policymakers to take a fresh look at it,” Bill McCollum, Nuclear Development s CEO and a former TVA executive sa